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Friday, July 01, 2005

MinuteClinics

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One of the latest ideas in the brave new world of the health care biz is "MinuteClinics." As described here , MinuteClinics operat...
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Texas Sues Merck for Defrauding Medicaid

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The Associated Press reported that the state of Texas is suing Merck for Medicaid fraud involving its marketing of Vioxx to Medicaid patien...

The Kelo Case, Pfizer, and Conflicts of Interest

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There has been quite a lot published both in main-stream media and on blogs about the Kelo case, so I have hesitated about precipitously com...
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Thursday, June 30, 2005

A New Format

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We had to change the graphic format of Health Care Renewal. Blogger still has been not come up with a solution of the formatting problems th...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

A Former Rhode Island Legislator Pleads Guilty to Selling His Office to Local Health Care Organizations

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Back to a big, and increasingly messy local story... former RI state senator John A. Celona has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, a...

Guidant Executives Sued for Securities Fraud

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Those hits just keep on coming for Guidant Corp. The Indianapolis Star reported that Guidant and six of its top executives were named as de...

Another Health Care Executive Pleads Guilty

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The Charlotte Observer reported that David M. Hurley, the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of aaiPharma Inc , agreed to plead guilty of...
Sunday, June 26, 2005

Now Stuck Switches for Guidant

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The NY Times reported yet another problem with implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) made by Guidant. This time it was a magnetic switc...

Boston Scientific Settles Case of Defective Stent Systems

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The Boston Globe reported that Boston Scientific has settled a suit brought by the US Department of Justice that alleged "a failure by...
Friday, June 24, 2005

An Australian Survey of Threats to Research Integrity

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Another important article on threats to the integrity of clinical research has appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia. (Henry DA et al...
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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Two Massachusetts Hospitals to Offer Discounts Off "List Prices" for Uninsured Patients

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Two Massachusetts hospital systems will begin offering discounts off "list prices" for uninsured patients, according to the Boston...

Waxman Summarizes the Marketing of Vioxx

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The current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine also continues the journal's new skeptical approach to the business practices o...
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"Crying All the Way to the Bank" Revisited: Pfizer's Trials of Torcetapib-Atorvastatin

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The current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine continues the journal's recent skeptical approach to the business practices of ...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Secrecy and Censorship

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On June 6 I wrote a post entitled "Secrecy," and concluded "we should cultivate transparency and openness in health care. It ...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Tales of Sales Reps

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Two recent news stories about how pharmaceutical companies' sales representatives market to physicians provided some interesting informa...
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A Cautionary Tale About Health Care IT in the Real World

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The Los Angeles Times reported another cautionary tale about the down-side of health care information technology (IT) in the real world. Ap...
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Monday, June 20, 2005

CIGNA Can't Take a Joke

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The Associated Press reported (see the Washington Post version ) that the Dr. Douglas Farrago, the physician who edits the humor magazine Pl...
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"We'll Manage It the Way We Damn Well Want"

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Phoebe Putney Health System is a health care system in Georgia, which boasts of "world-class medicine, hometown commitment." Its s...
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More Short Circuits for Guidant

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The NY Times reported yet more bad news from the Guidant Corporation. We had previously posted ( here ) how Guidant had delayed notifiying ...

"Naturopath" Takes the Fifth

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The Providence Journal has followed-up on the story of local "naturopath" John E. Curran. (See our previous post here .) Curran re...
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Friday, June 17, 2005

"Slippery As Oiled Pigs"

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The Washington Post followed up on the case of the hospitals that employed used elevator hydraulic fluid rather than detergent to attempt to...
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Michigan Politicians Covet Large Blue Cross Surpluses

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The Detroit News reported that the Chairwoman of the State Senate Appropriations Committee is calling on Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan...

Nursing Home Administrator Charged with Patient Neglect

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Our local Providence Journal has been following a tragic story of the closing of a large local nursing home, after many reports of sub-stand...

New Book on "Olivieri Affair"

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The NY Times reviewed a new book on what may be called the "Olivieri affair," one of the most notorious cases of research suppres...
Thursday, June 16, 2005

Canadian Health Care A Contradiction in Terms

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To all those still infatuated with Managed Care: June 16, 2005 Canadian Health Care A Contradiction in Terms By Steve Chapman To critics of ...
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Dispute at the American Society of Hypertension Over Industry Involvement

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The Boston Globe reported that a dispute has broken out at the American Society of Hypertension over the influence of pharmaceutical compan...

Deferred Prosecution for Bristol Myers Squibb for Fraud Charges

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The NY Times reported that federal prosecutors will defer prosecution of Bristol Myers Squibb for alleged manipulation of inventory designe...
Wednesday, June 15, 2005

A Not-For-Profit Hospital Sues a Former Donor

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The Boston Globe reported that the not-for-profit Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary has sued a foundation for failure to deliver a pled...

No Federal Standards for Reporting Flawed Medical Devices

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The NY Times reported about recent recalls of implanted cardiac devices. One important point the reporter made was that so far the US Food ...
Monday, June 13, 2005

Big Conflicts of Interest Alleged at Small Massachusetts Hospital

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The Boston Globe reported on the travails of tiny Hubbard Regional Hospital in Webster, MA, allegedly brought on by mismanagement. The 76-...