Showing posts with label conflicts of interest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conflicts of interest. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Who Should Sponsor Comparative Effectiveness Research?

We have tried to argue why comparative effectiveness research is a good idea. To cut and paste what I wrote in a previous post , Physicia...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Paging (and Paying) "Dr Coca-Cola"

A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times Booster Shots blog announced that "Dr. Coca-Cola will see you now," noting opposition to t...
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The Kelo Case Redux Once More: Pfizer Pulls Out and the "Carefully Formulated" Development Plan Collapses

Four years ago we posted ( here , here and here ) about the controversial US Supreme Court decision in the Kelo case. Most discussion of th...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Pfizer CEO Now Acknowledges "We Need to be Straight with People"

Even the CEO of the world's largest pharmaceutical company is now conceding that unethical behavior by large health care corporations ha...
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"Person No. 7," Also Known as the 83rd Richest Man in the World

This one nearly snuck by.  A Settlement and Some Indictments In May, 2009, we posted that international Swiss-based medical device manu...
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British Medical Journal Interviews Dr Aubrey Blumsohn

About a year after we started Health Care Renewal, in late 2005, we wrote multiple posts about the complex and unfortunate case of Dr Aubrey...
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The Door Revolves: Tufts Medical School Dean Goes Back to Merck

A little news item in the Newark Star-Ledger : Merck announced the appointment of Michael Rosenblatt as executive vice president and chief...
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Addressing Drug, Biotechnology, and Device Companies' Payments to Physicians: the Thai National Health Assembly

We have frequently discussed how financial relationships among physicians, other health care professionals, and health care academics, on o...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

The $20 Million Dollar Journal Editor

Last week, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported on a royally paid journal editor: In 2002, Thomas Zdeblick, a University of Wisconsin ...
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What the November, 2009, Breast Cancer Screening Argument Obscured

In November, 2009, a rancorous argument about screening mammography for women aged 40-49 was touched off by the publication of updated guide...
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One Small Step Towards Reducing Conflicts of Interest Affecting Academic Medical Leaders

Two articles, one in the New York Times by Duff Wilson, the other in the Boston Globe by Liz Kowalczyk, brought the issue of the conflict...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Why Are Health Care Organizations' Ethics Codes News?

This just in from the Orlando Sentinel , The head of Central Florida's largest blood bank told Florida senators Wednesday that she has...
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What Happens When "We'll Manage it the Way We Damn Well Want"

Back in the early days of Health Care Renewal (2005, to be exact), we first wrote about some very strange actions by the management of Pho...
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