Monday, April 29, 2013

More Smoke and Mirrors on Statins, Brought to You by Pfizer

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An esteemed colleague called my attention to: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/10/2276.full --in which a team of authors, who e...
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

The Price of Leukemia Drugs: 100 Doctors Protest

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I generally try to avoid posting on the price of drugs, as I see that as less directly related to the ethical issues at the interface of med...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Med Students Score Again with AMSA Scorecard

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In the 6 years I've been doing this blog (hard to believe), we've seen a number of successes in the struggle to free medicine from i...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Translational Research--What Does It Mean?

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The occasion for these musings is Dr. Barney Carroll's post over at our friends, Health Care Renewal: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/201...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

"The Emperor Wears a Thong"--More on Diabetes

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I've referred many times to the myth that tight control of blood sugar levels in adult-type (type 2) diabetes confers any real patient b...
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Even the Poster Child Has Problems: Drugs for Hypertension

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A perennial theme in this blog is the way American medicine and the general public have been oversold on drug treatment generally, and ...
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Friday, March 29, 2013

The Increasingly Hard Life of a Drug Rep

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I manage to get on some strange e-mail lists, partly because I used to write a regular newspaper column on medical issues, and partly becaus...
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