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Thứ Năm, 13 tháng 2, 2014

"Can't This be Avoided?" - How Corporate Marketers Manipulated a Clinical Research Report to Avoid "Undermining" Marketing Messages

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Documents newly made public in the course of litigation about the drug Pradaxa show granular details about how clinical research may be mani...
Thứ Năm, 12 tháng 9, 2013

Why Trust Drug Company Executives After One Admits Commercially Sponsored Clinical Research Is All About "Competitive Advantage?"

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Mickey, the semi-anonymous blogger on 1BoringOldMan, wrote a righteously angry post in support of transparent clinical research.  As we hav...
Thứ Sáu, 12 tháng 10, 2012

Back to the Future - Another Medical Device Company Accused of Hiding ICD Defects

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Suppression of data about defects in and failures of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) was one of the big issues we featured in the ...
Thứ Hai, 21 tháng 5, 2012

The Case of the Vanishing Graduate Medical Education Funds

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While primary care falters in the US, those who teach it seem to feel increasingly poverty stricken.  Now it appears that one reason for thi...
Thứ Ba, 7 tháng 2, 2012

Rendering Unto Caesar - What the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute vs Thompson Says About the Loss of the Academic Medical Mission

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A case, reported by the New York Times as involving an intellectual property dispute, should create a lot of cognitive dissonance about the...
Thứ Ba, 31 tháng 1, 2012

How the Anechoic Effect Is Institutionalized - A Hospital Policy Against Unsupervised Discussion with the Media

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In a single sentence, a short, obscure article in the Worcester (MA) Business Journal on life at a community hospital after a for-profit cor...
Thứ Hai, 27 tháng 6, 2011

CEO Compensation: Nothing to See Here, Just Move Along

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An article in the Washington Post showed how uncomfortable executives of big corporations, including health corporations, are about making ...
Thứ Hai, 6 tháng 12, 2010

VCU President Rao's Previous Code of Silence

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We recently posted about the code of silence imposed by Virginia Commonwealth University President Stephen Rao on his staff.  It turns out ...
Thứ Ba, 30 tháng 11, 2010

A Confidentiality Clause or an Oath of Fealty?

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The advancement of modern scientific medicine depends on the search for and dissemination of truth. Academic medicine, like the rest of acad...
Thứ Hai, 15 tháng 11, 2010

About to be Bought-Out Non-Profit Hospital System Tries to Hide Executives' Golden Parachutes

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A report from FloridaToday (in Brevard County) about the sale of a not-for-profit Florida hospital system to a for-profit corporation raise...
Thứ Ba, 9 tháng 11, 2010

What a Conflicted Web We Weave: More About Leaders of Financial Firms Influencing Policy in the Guise of Independent Academics

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The issue of conflicted academic economists providing public policy recommendations just got bigger.  As discussed by Felix Salmon in his ...
Thứ Năm, 28 tháng 10, 2010

RUC It Up - How the US Government Fixes Physicians' Payments Becomes Less Anechoic

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We have frequently posted, first here in 2007 , and most recently here and here , about the little-known group that controls how the US Med...