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)

Sunday, August 31, 2008

The FDA, Preemption, and Drug Safety

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Two items came to my attention this past week that are worth pondering in tandem. Item #1 I might as well shamelessly lift from the Prescrip...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

The ADVANTAGE Revelations: Seeding Caught in the Act

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Apologies to faithful readers for my slowness in posting the big news of the week (that darn day job again). The Annals of Internal Medicine...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

The Antidepressant Warning Affair: What Really Happened?

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This tale unfolds in three chapters: Chapter One. Critics of the pharmaceutical industry amass evidence that trials showing an excess risk ...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Massachusetts Gift Law: The Industry Took Notice

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Thanks to our friends over at the Prescription Project, we learned of Gov. Patrick's signing the new law in Massachusetts requiring repo...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

How Conflicts of Interest Poison the Academic Water Hole

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Our colleague Barney Carroll over at the Health Care Renewal blog has been keeping up steady pressure on Stanford University and Dr. Alan Sc...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Saving the Medical Literature from Sponsorship Bias

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Doucet and Sismondo, of the Philosophy Department of Queen's University in Ontario, recently wrote about the problem of sponsorship bias...
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Friday, August 1, 2008

Thanks to Danny Carlat, Some Helpful News Updates

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I can put up my feet and take the day off thanks to Dr. Danny Carlat and his blog focusing on psychiatry-related matters. First and most rec...
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