The case of the over-marketing of Kyphon's kyphoplasty device (look here ) just got more complicated, and now appears to have involved a...
Showing posts with label Medtronic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medtronic. Show all posts
55 of Medtronic's Best Hospital Friends, Including HCA, Settle for $34 Million
The case of the over-marketing of Kyphon's kyphoplasty device (look here ) just got more complicated, and now appears to have involved a...
Another Revolving Door Variant: From Academia with Millions in Medtronic Royalties, to the White House, to the Health Care Service Corp
The revolving door spins, and where it will stop, nobody knows... In October, 2010, we noted questions about how Dr Stephen Ondra got to be ...
Marketers' Systemic Influence over Ostensibly Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed Publications: the Medtronic Infuse BMP-2 Example
On the heels of our discussion of how one pharmaceutical company employed a "publications strategy" to commission and control ran...
Medtronic Settles, Yet Again
And the march of legal settlements continues... Circling around the block and coming in front of the viewing stand again is device manufact...
Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services Saunters Through Revolving Door, Ends Up as Director of Medtronic
There they go again. Another US government health care leader, this time the top health care leader at the end of the previous George W Bus...
BLOGSCAN - Attention to Medtronic's Payments to Spine Surgeons in the Main Stream Media
On the HealthBeat blog, Maggie Mahar takes up the case of huge royalty and consulting payments to spine surgeons by medical device company ...
BLOGSCAN - On Device Company's Obfuscation of the Reasons for Payments to Surgeons
On the Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma blog, Dr Howard Brody analyzed further the case of the huge royalties paid to spine surgeons by ...
Spine Surgeons Reticent About Disclosing Huge Medtronic Payments
Starting in 2007, we posted ( here , here , here , here and here ) about the payments, often huge, that five manufacturers of prosthetic jo...
BLOGSCAN - Medtronic's Multi-Million Dollar Payments to Spine Surgeons
Starting in 2007, we discussed the huge payments made by four medical device companies to orthopedic surgeons and medical organizations rela...
The Boards Who Ought to be Accountable for the Misbehavior of Health Care Corporations
I recently posted about the multiple conflicts of interest affecting a university health sciences leader. While he was supposed to be runn...
Duke Divinity Students Protest Pay of Chancellor for Health Affairs
This may be a first. A small group of Duke University divinity students publicly protested the compensation given to some top university le...
