Boston Scientific to Plead Guilty (of Suppressing Information about Failure-Prone Defibrillators)

In the early days of Health Care Renewal (2005-2006) we posted several times about allegations that Guidant hid information about defects in...

Boston Scientific to Plead Guilty (of Suppressing Information about Failure-Prone Defibrillators) 2015-05-18T01:12:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

How Industry Views the Research It Sponsors

We have posted frequently about threats to the integrity of the clinical evidence-based, and to the practice of evidence-based medicine.  In...

How Industry Views the Research It Sponsors 2015-05-17T20:06:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

"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...

"Person No. 7," Also Known as the 83rd Richest Man in the World 2015-05-17T19:18:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

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...

Addressing Drug, Biotechnology, and Device Companies' Payments to Physicians: the Thai National Health Assembly 2015-05-17T18:31:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Boston Scientific (Again) Settles - This Time, Charges of Kickbacks Disguised as Clinical Studies

One would think that the stories about bad behavior by health care organizations would quiet down just before Christmas, but no... As repo...

Boston Scientific (Again) Settles - This Time, Charges of Kickbacks Disguised as Clinical Studies 2015-05-15T04:15:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Spectranetics Settles

I could not let this story, which came out just before the new year, completely slip by.  As reported by the Colorado Springs Gazette : Sp...

Spectranetics Settles 2015-05-15T03:11:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Atricure Settles

The march of legal settlements continues.  This time, the US Department of Justice announced , Atricure Inc., a medical device manufacture...

Atricure Settles 2015-05-14T19:42:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Who Guards the Guardians? - the Case of Boston Scientific

The fallout from the case of the faulty implantable cardiac defibrillators continues.  To summarize the story thus far, We started posting...

Who Guards the Guardians? - the Case of Boston Scientific 2015-05-12T18:26:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

What Me Worry? - Leaders Prosper Despite Questions About Their Organizations' Ethics and Performance

There were two examples in the recent news about how the leaders of health care organizations seem to prosper no matter what questions are r...

What Me Worry? - Leaders Prosper Despite Questions About Their Organizations' Ethics and Performance 2015-05-12T18:21:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

St. Jude Medical Settles

We could not let more than a week go by without discussing another legal settlement by a major health care organization.  From the Pioneer P...

St. Jude Medical Settles 2015-05-11T00:14:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Sequenom Executive Pleads Guilty, Banned from Leading Any Public Company (for Misleading Investors About the Performance of a Diagnostic Test?)

We have frequently noted how health care organizations accused of kickbacks, fraud, and other unethical and sometimes potentially illegal b...

Sequenom Executive Pleads Guilty, Banned from Leading Any Public Company (for Misleading Investors About the Performance of a Diagnostic Test?) 2015-05-11T00:08:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Deferred Prosecution Agreements End, So Let the Payments Grow

Starting in 2007, we posted ( here , here , here , here and here ) about the payments, often huge, that five manufacturers of prosthetic jo...

Deferred Prosecution Agreements End, So Let the Payments Grow 2015-05-10T23:17:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

GE: Don't Know Much About Radiation Safety, Don't Know Much About Physics

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about a science book Don't know much about the fre...

GE: Don't Know Much About Radiation Safety, Don't Know Much About Physics 2015-05-06T21:08:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown