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)

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

From the Belly of the Beast: The Future of Drug Reps

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"Dear Howard," begins the e-mail, "here at Cutting Edge Information, we have done extensive primary research about some of th...
Monday, September 10, 2012

China and Unsafe Drugs--Any Progress Made?

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I have in the past blogged about drug safety issues with U.S. companies buying critical drug ingredients from unregulated and uninspected Ch...
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Ethics (or Lack Thereof) and Post-Marketing Studies

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As I noted in HOOKED, and as has been here documented, all too often the FDA approves a new drug contingent upon the company doing a post-ma...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

A Telling Anecdote about Regulatory Capture and Medical Device Safety

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Thanks to an exchange of e-mails on a list that includes journalists Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee (whose great work I've previousl...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Healthy Skepticism in Peril

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I'm passing along news from Dr. Peter Mansfield, the Australian physician who's the founder of the Healthy Skepticism group and webs...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

You Too Can Be a KOL

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As in the previous post, I'm grateful to our friends at Health Care Renewal blog for this pair of items. I have, more times than I wis...
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Pfizer: Make That Criminal Settlement #10

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A not atypical scenario-- while I've been napping over here, the people at Health Care Renewal have been posting a number of important i...
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