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, November 30, 2009

Two-for-One Special over at Health Care Renewal

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Roy Poses over at the Health Care Renewal site has been blogging up a storm. Rather than try to summarize or encapsulate, I'll simply po...

Beware the CER Trojan Horse in Senate Reform Bill

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I'm a bit late picking up on this important Perspective in the New England Journal : http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp09107...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Another Example of Spin in Published Results of Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trials

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Long-time readers of this blog may want to skip this post; but starry-eyed optimist that I am, I continue to believe that a new reader or tw...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Yet More on Concealing Negative Antidepressant Data--from Germany

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If any more evidence were needed that concealing negative data about (at least) antidepressants is a standard business plan among pharmaceut...
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Follow the Money: Who's Screaming Loudest about Mammogram Guidelines?

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Thanks again to Marilyn Mann's tip, I am pleased to recommend a post by our PharmedOut friends, Adriane Fugh-Berman and Alice Bell: http...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Inside the Belly of the Medical Communications Beast

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Here is another paper I should have been all over earlier this year--again apologies for my tardiness. Sergio Sismondo is a philosopher and ...

Kids, Antidepressants, and Suicide Risk: A Review of Commercial Bias

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Here's a somewhat old paper that I should have posted about some time ago-- thanks to "Primary Care Medical Abstracts," aka Ri...
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