Monday, June 13, 2005 direct to consumer advertising MedRants Blogger's Op-Ed Against Direct to Consumer Drug Advertising Fellow health care blogger Robert Centor MD (of MedRants ) published an op-ed in USA Today advocating that direct to consumer (DTC) advertis...
Saturday, June 11, 2005 Johnson and Johnson marketing How Johnson & Johnson Marketed Propulsid The NY Times reported on the events leading up to Johnson & Johnson's withdrawal of Propulsid, based on documents made available by...
Friday, June 10, 2005 The AMA may be "getting it" AMA pursues doctor hiring reform Miami Herald June 10, 2005 In a move that could have widespread effects on the nation's healthcare indu...
Government officials who "get it" I heard Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt speak at the AHRQ Annual Patient Safety and Health Information Tec...
Thursday, June 9, 2005 manipulating clinical research "Scientists Behaving Badly" and "Unreasonable Managerial Demands" An article in Nature reports on "Scientists Behaving Badly."(1) This was a broadly based anonymous survey, with a 52% response rat...
Pfizer whistle-blowers Pfizer Dissident Unplugged The New York Times reported that Dr. Peter Rost, a Pfizer executive who publicly spoke out in favor of importation of low cost drugs, lost ...