Thursday, March 22, 2007

JAMA Study: Still Hard to Get Reports of Pharma Gifts

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Dr. Joseph Ross and colleagues, several of whom represent the Public Citizen Health Research Group, have reported on the experience in the f...
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Pharmaceutical Gift Reporting in the Texas Legislature

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Recently I was asked by the office of Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr. of the Texas Senate to testify on behalf of his Senate Bill 414, which would req...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

New Study Highlights Docs' Denial Calls for Ban on Reps

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Troyen Brennan and colleagues fired a major salvo across the bow of the pharmaceutical industry last January with a paper published in JAMA,...
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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...