Friday, July 30, 2010

Big Pharma on the Hill: Still Plenty of Clout

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A recent Senate committee action gives us a chance to see how Big Pharma is doing these days in terms of political clout: http://www.mynorth...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

What's Playing in Peoria? Commercial Influence over CME Is Alive and Well

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One problem I continually run into as an academic-type physician is to get a fix on what's happening out there in the "real world....
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Still Awaiting an Academic Physician to Suffer Consequences for Ghostwriting...

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A plaint that regular readers of this blog have now heard several times: when is an academic physician going to suffer any bad consequences ...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

AAFP and Coca-Cola, Continued: How I Just Spent $100

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Let me recommend to you that you consider spending a bit of your own money in the way that I just spent $100. I received an e-mail from Rich...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

What's New In Pittsburgh? Current Status of Physicians and Drug Industry Cash

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So--for the past few years some of us have been hammering away at why it is ethically bad news for docs to take cash from drug companies for...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Docs for Sale: The FDA Advisory Panel on Avandia

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Thanks in part to Postscript, I was guided to two articles by Alicia Mundy in the on-line Wall Street Journal : http://online.wsj.com/articl...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

More on the AAFP-Coca-Cola Controversy

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Since last fall I have been conducting my debate with the leaders of my own medical professional society, the American Academy of Family Phy...
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