Jeanne Lenzer is a freelance medical investigative journalist and former Knight Science Journalism fellow. She is currently a stringer for the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal). Her articles, reviews, and commentary have appeared in The New Republic, Discover, Slate, The American Prospect, The Scientist, The (London) Independent, USA Today, Newsweek Japan, and Mother Jones.

Shannon Brownlee is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.


Blog Entries by Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee

A New Year's Resolution for the FDA: Kick the Drug (Company) Addiction

Posted January 9, 2009 | 10:40 AM (EST)


The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is suffering from a debilitating addiction to doing what's good for the drug industry and bad for the American people. It's going to take more than just a new FDA commissioner to help the agency kick its habit, and we have a 3-step...

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