Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Cardiovascular Guideline Committees (Half) Rife with Conflicts of Interest

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A pair of articles in the most recent Archives of Internal Medicine (subscription required) address the problem of conflict of interest (CO...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Against the Grain: Fewer Drugs, Better Health for the Elderly

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In the previous post I gave you the bad news, about how drug marketing, coupled with our fond beliefs in the powers of prevention and early ...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Synthesis: Why the Drug Industry Tries to Improve the Public's Health--and Ends Up Doing the Opposite

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A while back--March 16, to be precise--I promised a post that would pull together a number of previous commentaries and show how they were p...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Craziest Drug Ads, From RN Central

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Christine Seivers from the RN Central website kindly drew my attention to a posting there of "ten totally ridiculous pharmaceutical ads...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

How Honest Reports of Research Can Still Overhype New Drugs

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In recent months, several important books and articles have appeared that jointly help us understand much better how we can be misled about ...
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Monday, March 14, 2011

PR, Sock Puppets, and the Ways of Corporations

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This rather incoherent post arises from a conjunction of two events--first, seeing the following post-- http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/88xx/doc8...
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Monday, March 7, 2011

And Another Defense of the Medicine-Pharma Status Quo...

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Back over to Health Care Renewal, this time from Dr. Roy Poses, commenting on a Medscape piece by a surgeon, Dr. Frank J. Veith. As you need...
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