Pages

▼
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Were Late Stent Thromboses Really So Unexpected? Why depend on device companies and others to find out?

›
In " Were Late Stent Thromboses Really So Unexpected? " Roy Poses concludes that: The lessons, again (see previous post ), are tha...

Medicine at war with ... the I.S. department?

›
Seen at the HISTalk web site, a site designed primarily for Healthcare's IT (computing) personnel, from an anonymous poster. I have b...
2 comments:
Monday, September 11, 2006

An Even More Tangled Web: "Development Cases," "Go-To Men," and Health Care Corporations

›
The Wall Street Journal excerpted (available here from the Providence Journal with free registration) a chapter from a new book, The Price ...

NIH Internal Audit Finds"Serious Misconduct"

›
We have posted frequently, most recently here and here , about conflicts of interest affecting top US National Institutes of Health (NIH) s...
1 comment:
Friday, September 08, 2006

Were Late Stent Thromboses Really So Unexpected?

›
A flurry of report from the World Cardiology Conference in Barcelona, Spain have raised doubts about the safety of the currently very popula...

Bernadine Healy Takes Some Cheap Shots at EBM

›
Bernadine Healy MD, cardiologist and former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), writes a periodic health column for the US ...
3 comments:
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Massachusetts Hospital CEOs Cash In

›
In Time to Heal , Kenneth Ludmerer traced the evolution, if that is the right word, of the academic medical center from a relatively "f...

Should Physicians Prescribe High-Dose Lipitor to Prevent Strokes?

›
The Boston Globe just reported about how Pfizer Inc, the world's biggest drug company, is "using the results of a study it sponsor...
1 comment:
Friday, September 01, 2006

Another Case of Attempted Research Suppression: the Famvir vs Valtrex Study

›
Another story of apparent suppression of clinical research has surfaced, spotted first by Pharma Watch . The details come from an article j...
1 comment:

Case-Study: "The Rise and Fall of Natrecor"

›
Health Affairs recently published an article from the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Harvard about the "rise...
Thursday, August 31, 2006

Pay for Malfeasance?

›
"Pay for Performance" (P4P) is the current fashion in health care management. It is claimed that P4P will improve quality and redu...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

"Money-Driven Medicine"

›
I don't get to do a lot of book reviews, possibly because I don't have a lot of time to read whole books. However, I have just finis...
1 comment:

After Revelations of Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest, a Journal Editor Steps Down

›
In July, we briefly posted about several cases in which articles published in prominent journals were discovered to have been written by au...

Sometimes There Are Consequences

›
A depressingly large number of the posts on Health Care Renewal deal with cases of mismanagement, conflicts of interest, and even corruption...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Schering-Plough Settles, Again, Again

›
'Tis the season to settle, so it seems... Multiple media sources just reported that Schering-Plough has settled civil and criminal cha...
4 comments:
Friday, August 25, 2006

St Barnabas Settles

›
The New York Times reported on how yet another hospital system has settled federal charges that it over-billed Medicare. The system in qu...
2 comments:
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

The Post-Modernist View: Evidence-Based Medicine as Fascism?

›
As many of you realize, I am an advocate of evidence-based medicine (EBM), roughly defined as medicine based on critical review of the best ...
7 comments: