Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Havidol: Check out this spoof website

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Many people think that laughter is really the only sensible reaction to the advertising excesses of the drug industry. Check out this site: ...
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The Prescription Project: New Link

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I've just added a link to The Prescription Project, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and affiliated with the Institute on Medicine as...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

Patents: A Helpful Analysis

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The current issue of the Hastings Center Report contains a 36-page supplement, "Patents, Biomedical Research, and Treatments: Examinin...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Patient Advocacy Groups: In the Pockets of Industry?

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Michael Day, writing in BMJ (the British Medical Journal in olden days), relates an account of a World Health organization official who ap...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

A Doctor Takes his Camera to the Medical Conference

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In HOOKED, Chapter 11 I offer the reader a sort of guided tour of the pharamceutical exhibits at a major medical conference--in that case, t...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Ads in Medical Journals: A Serious Problem?

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In HOOKED, I spent relatively little space discussing pharmaceutical ads in medical journals. I did this in part because I figured that ads ...
Saturday, February 10, 2007

More Teen Suicides Due to Less Medication?

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According to CDC statistics, teen suicides rose from 2.2 per 100,000 to 2.6 per 100,000 in 2004, an 18% increase. This was the first increas...
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