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)

Monday, January 28, 2008

Who Gets Free Samples? Not the Needy

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A group out of the Cambridge Health Alliance at Harvard have published what appears to be the first population-based survey of the use of fr...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Do I Hate Capitalism? Wild and Crazy Accusations

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Robert Goldberg of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest was so kind as to include my name in a minor place in his diatribe: http:/...

A Hidden Infomercial for Avandia and Zyprexa?

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For a little sleight-of-hand drug marketing, see this opinion column (which I am grateful to fellow blogger Roy Poses for calling to my atte...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

Going Pharm Free, with 20 Shopping Carts

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USA Today reports on the efforts of SMDC Health Systems, based in Duluth, to implement its strict new no-Pharma-gifts policy: http://www.us...

More Conflicts of Interest--This Time, Not Pharma

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See David Armstrong on the WSJ blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/01/18/conflicts-in-ct-lung-cancer-research-back-in-spotlight/ Just to ...
Saturday, January 19, 2008

Can Anyone Explain the Nemeroff Phenomenon?

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Please mosey on over to our distinguished neighbor blog, Health Care Renewal: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/ Scroll down to the January 16 b...
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The Depressing Results of the NEJM Antidepressant Study

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Do antidepressants work? If you read the studies submitted by Pharma to the FDA, but never published, the answer is no . If you read the pub...
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