NewsBlog: Psychiatrist kills ads to pay ransom Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 10:52 PM GMT] A leading child psychiatrist got thousands of emails this week criticizing a provocative advertising campaign by his center to raise awareness of mental illness in children. The New York Times reported that Harold Koplewicz, the director of New York University's Child Study Center, received more than 3,000 emails in response to the ads, which used fake ransom notes to call attention to autism and depression in... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Kessler out as UCSF dean Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 17th December 2007 03:39 AM GMT] The University of California, San Francisco fired dean David Kessler on Thursday, after he refused a request to resign earlier in the year. In announcements about the firing on Friday, Kessler and the university noted that he had raised questions about the school's finances, but that the university had denied there were any improprieties. In June, the school asked him to step down by January 1, but he refused. After his firing,... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: WHO media sanctions have little effect Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 02:00 PM GMT] Apparently, the punishment the World Health Organization (WHO) meted out to the New York Times for breaking an embargo last week didn't deter other media outlets from doing the same yesterday and today. Early this morning -- 4:28 EST, to be precise -- the WHO sent out a notice to its media list saying that an embargo on a story about children's medicines was being lifted immediately because it had been broken. I searched Google News... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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