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)

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

More on Guinea Pigging--The Quality of Pharmaceutical Research

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Two longish articles by our old friend Dr. Carl Elliott and by Peter Aldhous: https://medium.com/matter/did-big-pharma-test-your-meds-on-ho...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Rating New Hepattits Drugs: What Standard?

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There seem to be two problems with the newest drugs for hepatitis C,  simeprevir (Olysio) and sofosbuvir (Sovaldi). The problem most discuss...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

USA: Worse than Two Countries in Health Costs

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Every so often, it’s worth taking a look at how badly we’ve allowed ourselves to distort reality. We generally think that health care cost...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

The Top Five Ways that Pharma Affects You

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Salon.com recently published a piece: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/25/5_evil_ways_the_multi_billion_dollar_drug_industry_is_in_bed_with_you...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Are KOLs drying up? Praise be

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Back in 2011 I heard from Cutting Edge Information on the subject of key opinion leaders (KOLs): http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2011/...
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Monday, May 5, 2014

The Ongoing Statin Debate, or Is It?

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Those of you who are heartily sick of my talking about statins, please skip this post. By way of joining in on the controversial new stati...
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Yet More Corruption in Pharma

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Once again I'll move over and give the floor to Dr. Roy Poses at Health Care Renewal: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-pervasi...
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