Friday, March 28, 2014

Pharma Lobbyists Have Their Way: FDA “Breakthough-Drug” Policy

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A group from the excellent Pharmacoepidemiology-Pharmacoeconomics center at Harvard, a.k.a. Dr. Jerry Avorn and friends, wrote this commen...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Over-Enthusiasm in Research Results: How Pharma Finds a Seam

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Every so often I comment on a research study that has nothing directly to do with pharmaceutical matters, but which illustrates some basic p...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Pharma Slashes Budgets for Physician Speakers--Why?

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The nice folks over at ProPublica: http://www.propublica.org/article/as-full-disclosure-nears-doctors-pay-for-drug-talks-plummets --who ga...
Monday, March 3, 2014

A Bit of History--Louis Lasagna and the Creation of the Center for the Study of Drug Development

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One focus in HOOKED is the need to appreciate the history of the pharmaceutical industry in the 20th century, to trace today's developme...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Pradaxa: More Evidence of Drug Firms Manipulating Science

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Thanks to Dr. Roy Poses at Health Care Renewal: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/02/cant-this-be-avoided-how-corporate.html --for...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

"You're Another" Should Be an Admission of Guilt

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Charles Ornstein, investigative reporter at ProPublica, recently commented on a flap involving (to put it bluntly) university docs shilling ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Update: Detailing in India and Pakistan

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The very nice people at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan, pub...