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...within sensible borders. A major problem with earlier versions was mission creep: In 1980, the APA published DSM-III, which radically expanded what clinicians could define as disordered. One example: depression. The pre-1980 definition had described "depressive neurosis" as "an excessive reaction of depression due to an internal conflict or to an identifiable event such as the loss of a love object." The much longer 1980 definition (which carried on into DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR, with slight modifications) omitted the requirement that symptoms be "excessive" in proportion to cause. In fact, the revised manual said nothing about...
Partners HealthCare, the company that owns two Harvard affiliated teaching hospitals, rolled out a revised conflict of interest policy earlier this year that capped compensation levels for employees who sit on the boards of pharmaceutical companies. The policy was hailed by experts for its stringent restrictions...
...will announce the results of an internal review of its conflict of interest policy in coming months...
Other issues brought up at the meeting included how to effect policy change with regards to efficient water management and climate change when existing policies are in conflict...
...participate in what he saw as the latest flare-up of a centuries-long struggle between Western civilization and Eastern barbarism. "This is almost like a race war, like a cultural war," he said about 9/11, the March 2004 Spanish subway bombings and the now lengthening conflict in Iraq. "And anyone who is my age who is not going to go fight in it is a coward. They can say it's about this or that, but it's really about religion. It's about not even which culture is going to rule the Middle East, but which culture...