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, June 29, 2012

Massachusetts Backtracks on Gift Ban

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Back in 2008 I was pleased to blog about the new law in Massachusetts that imposed one of the most stringent restrictions on Pharma gifts to...
Monday, June 25, 2012

How COI Poisons Academic Medicine: UC-Davis

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Thanks once again to our friend Dr. Roy Poses over at Health Care Renewal-- http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/06/administrators-at-pepper-...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Those Persistent Ghosts: The Key Loophole

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Our old friends Jonathan Leo and  Jeff Lacasse are at it again, this time in the Pharmalot blog: http://www.pharmalot.com/2012/06/ghosts-in...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

The Word from Pakistan: Bioethics, for Sale to the Highest Bidder

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Dr. Farhat Moazam is a most impressive Pakistani physician. She became interested in organ transplant issues in her native country and event...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Treating Stroke: Pharma Influence, Medical Zealotry, or Both?

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I recently had occasion: http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2012/05/statins-in-water-supply-continued-why.html --to call attention to the exce...
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Friday, June 8, 2012

Worshiping at the Altar of Innovation (a.k.a. Profits)

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Catching up on some older literature, I see that British sociologist John Abraham (last blogged about: http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2011/...
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How About a Little Exercise?

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In the previous post I talked about new evidence of how many serious injuries and deaths are caused by American medicine's love affair w...
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