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)

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Prescrire Now Has English Edition

I was delighted to receive this e-mail: I’m a French GP and editor with the continuing education journal Prescrire (French and English editi...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Not Passing the Sniff Test: ACC, PIPC, and CE Research

In my previous post, http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-is-industry-so-scared-of-finding.html , I provided a link to a Bloomberg Ne...

Monday, April 20, 2009

Why Is Industry So Scared of Finding Out What Really Works?

In a previous post: http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2008/08/massachusetts-gift-law-industry-took.html , I suggested that the way to find out...

Sunday, April 19, 2009

"You're Another," Part II

Another example of the "you're another" riposte when a physician is caught with his hands in the Pharma cookie jar was provide...

"You're Another"--Not a Very Good Answer to Pharma Influence

This is getting tiresome. The ploy du jour for those who wish to deny or to distract attention from the fact that the drug industry has a ne...

And the Winner Is--Pharmapologist

In a previous post: http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2009/04/pharmascolds-strike-back-latest-from.html , I announced a contest to come up wit...

Latest Vermont Report--It's a Trade Secret

The state of Vermont, the pioneer state to require public reporting of all drug company payments to physicians above a threshold amount, has...

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