Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma

Updates and Commentary related to HOOKED: ETHICS, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY, by Howard Brody, MD, PhD (Rowman and Littlefield, January, 2007)

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Could This Be What's Wrong with Company-Sponsored Clinical Trials?

The website ClinPage recently carried a story about a presentation made by Robert Ruffolo, president of R&D for Wyeth: http://www.clinpa...

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Mandatory Trials Registry--Two Years In

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, made up of the editors of some of the most prestigious medical journals in the world...

Unexpected Consequences of an Arms-Length Research Relationship

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an analysis of a court decision that raises some interesting implications for the re...

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Are Nurses Embracing Pharma Marketing?

I am not a regular reader of Dermatology Nursing , the journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association--since I am not a dermatology nurs...

Is Pharmageddon Coming? Write and Earn 1,000 Euros

An organization in the UK called Social Audit is worried about "Pharmageddon," which they define as: "the prospect of a world...

Sunday, July 15, 2007

DTC Ads: Coming to a Europe Near You?

The BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal ) has been tracking in its news columns the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry and some of its...

More Academic Centers Becoming Pharm-Free Zones

Thanks to the weekly update from the Prescription Project (see Links), I learned that a couple more university medical centers have joined t...

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