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

Vested Interests and Their Influence on Physicians- New Understanding from Cognitive and Social Psychology

Evidence-based medicine proposes patient care decisions based on the best evidence from critically reviewed clinical research, knowledge of...

Vested Interests and Their Influence on Physicians- New Understanding from Cognitive and Social Psychology 2015-05-12T22:10:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

No Needle, but the Damage was Done - A New Example of Suppression of Research about Adverse Effects of Prescription Narcotic Analgesics

This story feels personal, since as a physician who trained starting in the 1970s, figuring out how to manage patients who desperately wante...

No Needle, but the Damage was Done - A New Example of Suppression of Research about Adverse Effects of Prescription Narcotic Analgesics 2015-05-11T20:54:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Oh, the Prices we Pay ... for Questionable Drug Marketing to Enrich Corporate Insiders - the Case of Questcor's H P Acthar Revisited

In 2007, we first discussed the case of the amazing pricing of H P Acthar, a very old drug of questionable usefulness, as an example of the...

Oh, the Prices we Pay ... for Questionable Drug Marketing to Enrich Corporate Insiders - the Case of Questcor's H P Acthar Revisited 2013-01-03T07:57:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The "King of Pain" Recants - Pharmaceutical Paid Key Opinion Leader Admits It Was All "Misinformation"

This may be a first.  A Wall Street Journal story announced that the "key opinion leader" who played a pivotal role in the promot...

The "King of Pain" Recants - Pharmaceutical Paid Key Opinion Leader Admits It Was All "Misinformation" 2012-12-17T09:11:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

BLOGSCAN: Key Opinion Leader Admits to being a Marketer

Without any notable shame, and as a guest blogger on KevinMd.  The post was about other physicians can become big-time KOLs by using social...

BLOGSCAN: Key Opinion Leader Admits to being a Marketer 2012-08-22T11:56:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Giant GSK Settlement Provides Reminder of the Pervasiveness of Stealth Marketing

The latest  and biggest legal settlement involving health care to hit the news, that of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the US government, has man...

Giant GSK Settlement Provides Reminder of the Pervasiveness of Stealth Marketing 2012-07-05T05:00:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown