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We have written often, and most recently this week, about the limp posture taken by US law enforcement and regulatory agencies in the face...

I have not been writing much the past few weeks due to other concerns, and will probably not write much this summer. However, I have been co...

A week ago, another legal settlement with some noteworthy aspects came marching along.  As reported by the Wall Street Journal, here are th...

When we began Health Care Renewal in late 2004, we focused on "concentration and abuse of power" as a driver of dysfunction in the...

All the shenanigans that went on in the course of Merck's marketing of the now withdrawn Cox-2 inhibitor non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...

As reported by the Springfield, MA, Republican : A former chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center has agreed to plead guilty to falsi...

You just can't make this stuff up. On the Respectful Insolence blog , Orac recounted how pharmaceutical giant Merck hired medical publis...

Here is a new kind of example of how physicians have been caught in cross-fires between competing interests. The NY Times reported today abo...

On MedRants , a commentator expressed this "managed care" view of the Vioxx mess: Payers are frustrated that MDs are prescribing d...