Pfizer Offers Goodies to Journalists
Normally I would salivate over a workshop titled "Let Me Be Clear: Science Journalism in the Age of the Genome and Twitter." But then my building excitement and anticipation was doused by a real buzz...
View ArticleIt's Complicated: Taking Conflict of Interest Beyond Pharma Payments to...
I wrote a piece recently for Health News Review about conflicts of interest. The original post is below, followed by more great examples of writers describing unexpected conflicts in detail.
View ArticleEnd-of-Life Care: Why Don't Doctors Die Like Everyone Else?
A moving examination of how doctors choose to die, a big-money Prempro lawsuit, and FDA scrutiny of the HCG diet, plus more from our Daily Briefing.
View ArticleQ&A with Leigh Turner: Tracking Medical Tourism Consequences
Bioethicist Leigh Turner, recently under fire from a stem cell company he criticized for ethical problems, talks about his research on medical tourism.
View ArticleNew Uses For Bad Pills
Pharma isn't going to deliver disappointing earnings to Wall Street just because it has few new drugs coming online and has failed at its very purpose. It is recycling old for brand new uses.
View ArticleWhen The Publication Plan Is Ready, The Research Will Appear
Researching, writing and submitting papers to medical journals--and reworking and finessing them if accepted--is a demanding, time consuming job which drug companies have made into pay dirt.
View ArticleDoctors report big pharma payouts for drug endorsements
The makers of popular drugs like Advair, Cymbalta, Viagra and Zoloft have physicians, psychiatrists, and medical school faculty members across California on their payrolls. Does this influence...
View ArticleIs Testosterone the New Estrogen?
Marketed to men, testosterone is supposed to be a way to stay young and virile. Marketed to women, it is supposed to be a way to recapture waning sexual desire and boost the libido.
View ArticleNew Female Sex Drug May Treat Sexual Side Effects of Antidepressants
Nearly one in four US women is on antidepressants. The drugs, like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, may be happy pills but they are not happy-in-the-bedroom pills. Both older and newer antidepressants cause...
View ArticleWill Risperdal Settlement Change Anything?
Many say the only justice that will get Big Pharma's attention is frog marching the CEOs off to prison and/or cutting them off from their lucrative public trough of Medicare, Medicaid and military...
View ArticleIs Pharma Money Behind Health News Reporting?
How well is the media doing its job to vet sources' ties to pharmaceutical funding? New research shows that academics who promoted the use of antiviral drugs for swine flu were eight times more likely...
View ArticleThe American Heart Association--Protecting Industry Not Patients by Barbara...
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) recently released new cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines. They are an egregious example of much that is wrong...
View ArticleIf off-label marketing is 'speech,' why even have the FDA?
It has always been legal for U.S. doctors to prescribe drugs for off-label uses but marketing of off-label uses has been illegal.
View ArticleTaking a Chance with Chantix
After 60+ years of smoking, my mother-in-law’s lungs were surely a toxic wasteland, yet nothing would make her quit. Journalist Ricki Lewis examines the risks and benefits of Chantix and highlights a...
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