Monday, October 29, 2012

When the Marketing Tail Wags the Research Dog: More on Medtronic and InFuse

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I have posted a number of times on the case of Medtronic, its payments (bribes) to spine surgeons, and its product BMP-2 or InFuse: http://...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Against Capitalism?

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One of my most faithful pen-pals (if such a term can be applied to people who send me e-mails) shipped over this link: http://dissidentvoic...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Yet More from the Belly of the Beast: Pfizer's Campaign to Market Neurontin Off-Label

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Thanks as so often to Dr. Roy Poses over at Health Care Renewal-- http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/10/when-clinical-trials-are-meant-for....
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Friday, October 12, 2012

More on Sponsorship of Studies in Medical Journals

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In my last post: http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2012/09/nejm-overly-defensive-or-just-naive.html --I took off after an editorial in the Ne...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

NEJM: Overly Defensive, or Just Naive?

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The Sept. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine featured a study ( http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1202397 ) by Dr. Aa...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

More on Tamiflu: The Challenges of Getting Good Evidence

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I posted some time back on oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and the Cochrane systematic review that concluded that there's no good evidence that th...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Another Example of Industry Spreading Non-Facts: Health Information Technology

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While I try not to tread on the territory of our friends over at the Health Care Renewal blog, and keep this blog devoted to pharmaceutical ...
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