In Silver Blaze , Sherlock Holmes noted the important clue of the watchdog that did not bark. In health care, nowadays watchdogs are absent...
Words that Work: Singing Only Positive - And Often Unsubstantiated - EHR Praise As "Advised" At The University Of Arizona Health Network
When clinicians are told to promote a technology in no uncertain terms, that puts a chilling effect on critical thinking and discourse. In ...
BLOGSCAN - Television Advertising Revenue and the Anechoic Effect
We have often discussed the anechoic effect , how cases involving or discussions of the topics we address on Health Care Renewal , the conce...
The Texas TMAP Trial as Illustration of a Systematic Stealth Marketing Campaign
Before it was abruptly ended by a sudden settlement for $158 million, the trial in Texas of a suit alleging unethical marketing of the drug ...
The UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Case as Illustrative of Problems with the Leadership of Health Care
The aggressive actions by University of California-Davis police against unarmed, peaceful student protesters turn out to be the latest illus...
Abbott Laboratories and Pig Roasts, the "Philly Mob," and Legal Settlements
Help.... The health care muck is now being raked so fast I can't keep up. Abbott Laboratories, Prolific Stenters, Pig Barbecues, Etc In ...
Bring Back the DSI*? - the Avandia Case as Spy Novel
Starting in 2007, we posted quite a bit about the "Avandia case," which centered on whether Avandia (rosiglitazone, by GlaxoSmithK...
Merck Settles Another Vioxx Case
All the shenanigans that went on in the course of Merck's marketing of the now withdrawn Cox-2 inhibitor non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...