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)

Friday, January 30, 2009

Nice Article on the Zyprexa Debacle

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In the course of this past month I have been blogging about Eli Lilly and Zyprexa (olanzapine) and how the company marketing managed to make...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Compassion or Conflict of Interest? New Medicare Cancer Coverage Rules

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Check out these sources on the recent Medicare rules change for coverage of cancer drugs: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123302745342318667...
Monday, January 26, 2009

The Outsourcing of Drug Supply: Market Failure

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I would have thought that this article by Gardiner Harris would have stirred up more of a fuss: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/health/pol...
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Is Device Industry Shaping Up?

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According to Barry Meier in the New York Times -- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/business/24device.html?ref=health --the medical device i...

Protecting Prescription Privacy from Industry Marketing

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So much recent legislative attention has been focused on sunshine biils, requiring disclosure of physician payments from the drug companies,...
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Change in Washington and Elsewhere--Latest News

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Several news items in the last 24 hours' worth of e-mail. Our friends at Integrity in Science Watch report on the reintroduction by Sens...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Lilly Fine for Zyprexa Off Label Marketing: $1.4B

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When it came to fines paid for illegal marketing practices, the big drug companies had for some time been stuck in the mere hundreds of mill...
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