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Thursday, April 12, 2007

What the Student Loan Scandal Says About the Milieu in Which Medical Schools Operate

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We have posted frequently about problems with the leadership of academic medicine in the US. For example, most recently we discussed how Ame...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Lifestyles of Rich but Not So Famous Hospital Executives

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The Hartford Courant just reported on the ballooning salaries of top executives of not-for-profit hospitals in the state of Connecticut. The...
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Monday, April 09, 2007

Defending Conflicts of Interest and How eSapience Was "Shaping the Debate"

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Last week we posted about a prominent commentary , entitled "Drug Crazy," by Richard Epstein, a Professor at the University of Ch...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007

Annals of Internal Medicine Shows Appropriate Skepticism About a Commercially Sponsored Clinical Trial

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The Annals of Internal Medicine just published a clinical trial that compared a new type of anti-diabetic drug, exenatide, ( Byetta , from ...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Medical Schools to Faculty: "Show Me the Money"

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We have posted before ( here and here ) about how medical schools, despite their name, often fail to pay or otherwise reward faculty to act...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Pfizer Inc: the Dots Unconnected

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A number of vivid stories about Pfizer Inc ., the world's biggest pharmaceutical manufacturer, quietly slipped into public view this wee...
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Monday, April 02, 2007

"The Ugliest Night I Have Ever Seen" - 60 Minutes on How the Medicare Drug Benefit Bill Was Passed

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The legendary television news magazine, 60 Minutes, just did an expose of how the US Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit bill was pas...
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Friday, March 30, 2007

New Data, More Doubts About Pay-for-Performance (P4P)

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Two recent health care research articles and their accompanying editorials once again question the premises which undergird the currently fa...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

More Indictments at UMDNJ

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The pain at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) just goes on and on. We have previously discussed, seemingly ad i...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Some Days You Can't Win: Lawyers in Fen-Phen Case Found to Have Defrauded Injured Patients

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In "Pharma Goes to the Laundry," Carl Elliott described Wyeth 's marketing campaign for fenfluramine, the fen in the diet drug...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

"Drug Crazy"

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Every time the issue of conflicts of interest affecting the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) comes up, one is sure to see at least one ...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Thinking Blogger Award

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Health Care Renewal has now been nominated for a Thinking Blogger Award three times, from PharmaGossip , Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry ...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

WellPoint Fined $1 Million for Canceling Individual Insurance Policies in California

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The Los Angeles Times just reported , Blue Cross of California 'routinely' violated state law when it canceled individual health ins...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Other Bloggers Shed Light on Important Cases.

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A number of important and interesting stories have lately been perspicaciously covered by some other bloggers. I think we are starting to de...

FDA Leader Warns Dissent is Not "Helpful"

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And speaking of leaders of health care organizations who will not tolerate dissent... The Associated Press ( here via SFGate.com) reported ...
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Funny Sorts of Ombudsmen at the CDC

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We have previously posted (most recently here ) about allegations of mismanagement at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

More on Financial Entanglements of Physicians and Health Care Academics

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We have written extensively about physicians' and health care leaders' financial entanglements with other health care organizations....