Minimizing Legal Liability or Upholding the Mission? - the Markingson Case Redux

There are new, and troubling developments in the long running case of Dan Markingson, the psychiatric patient and research subject who commi...

Minimizing Legal Liability or Upholding the Mission? - the Markingson Case Redux 2015-05-18T18:34:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Doctors' Dubious Excuses for Taking Pharmaceutical Companies' Money

Pro Publica has updated their database of payments by pharmaceutical payments to physicians and organizations.  It now has data from 15 comp...

Doctors' Dubious Excuses for Taking Pharmaceutical Companies' Money 2015-05-18T18:19:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Is the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Really More Industry-Centered?

One of the biggest reasons our health care system seems so dysfunctional is that clinicians and patients have great difficulty determining w...

Is the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Really More Industry-Centered? 2015-05-17T21:16:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Long After the Start of the "War on Terror," a Conflict of Interest about an Anthrax Scare Comes to Light

In May, David Willman writing for the Los Angeles Times broke a story of a somewhat new variant on the conflict of interest theme, one that...

Long After the Start of the "War on Terror," a Conflict of Interest about an Anthrax Scare Comes to Light 2015-05-17T21:05:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

A Call to Restore the Integrity of Clinical Research - but Will Anyone Heed it?

Concerns about suppression and manipulation of clinical research to serve vested interests have finally gotten a little more mainstream. ...

A Call to Restore the Integrity of Clinical Research - but Will Anyone Heed it? 2015-05-15T01:15:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

More than Just a Conflict of Interest? - Should Rutgers University's Own Contract Research Organizations Report to the Board of Covance?

Transparency International's 2013 global survey showed that over 40% of Americans think the country's health care is corrupt (see th...

More than Just a Conflict of Interest? - Should Rutgers University's Own Contract Research Organizations Report to the Board of Covance? 2015-05-14T23:51:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown