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)

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Retinal Specialists Get the Integrity Award--Genentech and Avastin

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I am rather shocked to look back in the blog archives and see that I have not yet addressed the Avastin-Lucentis controversy. So I need to p...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

Yet More Evidence Linking Industry Funding to Biased Research Outcomes

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HOOKED contains a considerable discussion of the evidence that pharmaceutical trials funded by industry are substantially more likely to fav...
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Newsweek Reports Fewer Docs Seeing Reps

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Newsweek , this week, reports a trend among physicians and medical centers away from talking with reps and accepting company gifts (see the ...
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NEJM: Conflicted Editorialist?

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I must have been taking an extended nap the week the May 3 New England Journal of Medicine came out, or curiosity alone would have prompted...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Conflicts of Interest Rife at IOM? Maybe Not

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One of the writers whom I have relied on in the past is Merrill Goozner, who works with Center for Science in the Public Interest and wrote ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Bashing Head-to-Head Drug Trials--from a Conflicted Source

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This post is thanks directly to Dr. Roy Poses's "Health Care Renewal" blog, and indirectly thanks to the Prescription Project ...
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Academic Departments: Lots of Relationships with Industry

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A recent study in JAMA has garnered a lot of attention, but in my opinion tells us little that we did not already know. The main value of th...
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