Pharmaceutical Influence Fought By Medical School, Journalists
TRENTON, N.J. — Just about every segment of the medical community is piling on the pharmaceutical industry these days, accusing drugmakers of de...
TRENTON, N.J. — Just about every segment of the medical community is piling on the pharmaceutical industry these days, accusing drugmakers of de...
DealBook | Posted 08.04.2008 | Business
ImClone Systems, the maker of the anti-cancer drug Erbitux, said on Monday that while it is studying a $4.5 billion takeover bid from Bristol-Myers Sq...
New York Times | Andrew Pollack | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
It was one of the most celebrated insider-trading scandals of the last decade, sending Martha Stewart and her Merrill Lynch stock broker to prison, al...
Adam Hanft | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living
California is trying to stop companies from marketing genetic testing to state residents. But accurate genetic understanding could have enormously beneficial implications for individuals.
Katie Hood | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living
Last week I spoke on a couple of panels at the BIO Global Convention in San Diego. At one point I found myself seated next to Joshua Boger, the CEO of...
Liz Spikol | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
The elderly in nursing homes have long been treated poorly, as so many guilty adult children (cf. The Savages) can attest. But because of societal p...
ABC News | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Responding to an ABC News/Washington Times investigation, the Veterans Administration plans to inform 32,000 veterans that they are using a drug linke...
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living
There's no doubt that some drugs are beneficial and even life-saving, but there's no way to know which ones are truly effective or necessary until all the real outcomes are considered.
Katie Hood | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Finding cures is in and of itself an valuable, people-focused kind of health care reform -- because it can not only improve quality of life but save the costs that are burdening our system.
Derek Beres | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living
Tragically, a drug often works no better than a sugar pill, yet the pharmaceutical industry is driving -- let's make that dominating -- our economy.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
The pharmaceutical companies argue that they need to protect their patents in order to fund the research and development that produces new drugs.
Kim Stagliano | Posted 03.01.2008 | Living
Parents understand that drug companies lie, cheat, fudge data and advertise using fear to sell all of their products -- and that includes vaccines.
Harold Pollack | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living
Autism spectrum disorders are especially mysterious, varied, and frightening. Spreading debunked rumors will not help anyone here.
David McWilliams | Posted 02.28.2008 | Business
Every time we tune in to Desperate Housewives, we count our blessings for middle-aged America's neurotic fear of growing old because the Botox demand for these actresses pays for our children's classrooms.
New York TImes | Stephanie Saul | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business
Under criticism that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said Monday that it would cancel a long-running advertising campaign using the artificial heart pi...
Newsweek | Karen Springen | Posted 02.22.2008 | Living
When it comes to teens and drug abuse, prescription medications (or "pharmies") are now second only to marijuana in popularity. Overall, teen abuse of...
Wall Street Journal | HEATHER WON TESORIERO | Posted 02.21.2008 | Business
The pharmaceutical industry has been a frequent target in the current presidential campaign, but that hasn't stopped it from continuing to aggressivel...
Irena Medavoy | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living
I had a quick lesson on the pharmaceutical industry with my lawsuit against Botox. We need to restore impartiality to clinical research and sever the ties between drug companies and medical education.
The New York Times | Judith Warner | Posted 02.15.2008 | Living
This storyline persists despite the fact that government research has repeatedly shown that most adults and children with mental health issues don't g...
New York Magazine | Derek de Koff | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living
Things were looking good. My doctor had gone through the test results and told me I was perfectly healthy--except my breathing was a little shallow. T...
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business
TRENTON, N.J. — In one of the biggest U.S. health care fraud settlements ever, Merck & Co. will pay $671 million to settle claims it overcharged...
New York Times | AKE HOOKER and WALT BOGDANICH | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business
A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide d...
Naomi Wax | Posted 01.28.2008 | Living
Six different medications in one person's apartment!? It's hardly as scandalous as reporters implied when Heath Ledger's drug inventory was made public.
Sara Whitman | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living
Whenever gay men's sex lives ends up being classified as deadly instead of focusing on the pharmaceutical industries responsibility for the growth of antibiotic resistant infections, I have to wonder why.
MacRumorsLive | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business
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AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business