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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Tossing the Legionella Samples: A Case from the Homer Simpson School of Health Care Management

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Sometimes you just cannot make this stuff up. Here are extracts of a story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: U.S. House members on Tuesday ...
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Commercial Funding of CME, and Distinguishing Babies from Bathwater

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There has been quite a bit of discussion lately about how industry funding influences continuing medical education. One of our industrious ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

BLOGSCAN - On the APAs "Long Traditions and Established Practices"

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On Alison Bass' blog, this post discussed the ongoing US Senate probe of, among other things, the American Psychiatric Association's...
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An "Unfashionable" Pitch for More Academic-Industry Collaboration

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The Wall Street Journal Health Blog reported Marc Feldmann and Ravinder Maini, scientists from the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Impe...

BLOGSCAN - "Thyroid Storm" Revisited

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On the Scientific Misconduct Blog, Dr Aubrey Blumsohn revisited one of the classic cases of research suppression from the 1990s, the attemp...
Monday, September 08, 2008

"I'm Not a Hospital Guy Anymore"

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Some of the issues most important to us at Health Care Renewal are how bad leadership and governance of health care organizations threaten p...
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Saturday, September 06, 2008

StandUp4Pharma?

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Many people in the US watched a telethon carried on all three major television networks meant to raise money for cancer research. The teleth...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008

A Wide Web of Healthcare Data: He Who Controls The Data, Controls the Playing Field

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In posts such as here and here , it's become apparent that "Evidence Based Medicine" (EBM), while perhaps reasonable in theor...
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Health Care Leaders at 30,000 Feet

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The Times of Trenton (New Jersey, USA) reported this insight about the leadership of large health care organizations: Bristol-Myers Squibb ...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

"Docs Ditched After Undesirable Diagnosis"

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From the Johannesburg, South Africa Star, this story , entitled "Docs Ditched after Undesirable Diagnosis," has some eerie echoes ...
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BLOGSCAN - More on the JAMA Commentaries on Physicians' Relationships with Industry

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We recently blogged about Dr Marcia Angell's commentary about how the increasing influence of those with vested interests in selling pro...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

BLOGSCAN - "Academic" Contract Research Organizations - What Will They Think Of Next?

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On the Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma blog, Dr Howard Brody discussed an article in the British Medical Journal by Jeanne Lenzer about...

Dr Marcia Angell on Reforming a "Broken System" of Clinical Research

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This week's Journal of the American Medical Association (3 September, the paper version of which seems to arrive early at my house) is n...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Response from author of "The ADVANTAGE Seeding Trial"

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In response to my earlier post " Merck scientific debate hits bottom " I received the following from one of the authors of the VIO...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Merger Mania Redux: the Case of the Carilion Health Care System

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The Wall Street Journal published an article on how one not-for-profit hospital system came to dominate its market, and the effects of that ...
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BLOGSCAN - "Be the Power," Never Mind the Data

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Available in 3 parts on the Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Blog ( here , here , and here ), and in one part on PharmaLot, is a video app...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

No Denying the Haunting of the Medical Literature

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There was a remarkable series of letters in the latest JAMA(1). They, in turn, were responses to an article by Ross et al about ghost and gu...