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

The Best Governance for Medicines ... is in Thailand

The Best Health Care System in the World?  Here in the US, a lot of people have been convinced that we have the best health care system in...

The Best Governance for Medicines ... is in Thailand 2015-05-17T21:31:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Use of Psychological Manipulation of Physicians to Sell Pharmaceuticals: The Drug Representative as "Den Mother"

We have discussed, most recently here , how marketers of health care goods and services use deception and psychological manipulation to sel...

Use of Psychological Manipulation of Physicians to Sell Pharmaceuticals: The Drug Representative as "Den Mother" 2015-05-12T21:48:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Too Good to be True - Sovaldi Kerfuffle Focuses on Price, While Ignoring Limits of Evidence about Effectiveness and Safety

There seems to be rising skepticism about the prices we pay for the latest drugs, devices, and health care programs, especially in the US.  ...

Too Good to be True - Sovaldi Kerfuffle Focuses on Price, While Ignoring Limits of Evidence about Effectiveness and Safety 2015-05-10T20:56:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Finally, An Article in a Large Circulation Medical Journal with Systematic Data about Leaders of Academic Medicine Conflicted by their Service on Health Care Corporate Boards

Background - a New Species of Conflict of Interest Since 2006 , we have posted repeatedly about  what was then a new species of severe co...

Finally, An Article in a Large Circulation Medical Journal with Systematic Data about Leaders of Academic Medicine Conflicted by their Service on Health Care Corporate Boards 2015-05-10T20:44:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Knee Deep in the Hoopla - "A Triumph of Medical Technology" Sans Evidence of Superiority from Published Randomized Double Blind Controlled Trials

With the publication of several new articles in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, the buzz about Sovaldi (sofosbuvir - Gilead...

Knee Deep in the Hoopla - "A Triumph of Medical Technology" Sans Evidence of Superiority from Published Randomized Double Blind Controlled Trials 2015-05-08T01:36:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Some Authoritative Skepticism about the "Triumph" of Sovaldi to Add to Outrage about "Blood Money"

Three weeks ago we posted about the continuing controversy over the stratospheric price of the new antiviral drug for hepatitis C (HCV), sof...

Some Authoritative Skepticism about the "Triumph" of Sovaldi to Add to Outrage about "Blood Money" 2015-05-08T00:34:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown