Last week, Bloomberg reminded us of the legal baggage that pharmaceutical giant Merck is carrying. The company had announced yet another se...
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Showing posts with label Merck. Show all posts
The Spoils of a "Scorched-Earth Defense" - Merck CEO Got $13.3 Million in 2011
Last week, Bloomberg reminded us of the legal baggage that pharmaceutical giant Merck is carrying. The company had announced yet another se...
As U.S. Presidential Campaign Ramps Up, Newt Gingrich Plays Down Support for Health IT
Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who I recall hearing in person as an an invited speaker at a health IT meeting some years ago (AMIA, I...
Merck Admits Little While Settling the Vioxx Case
A week ago, another legal settlement with some noteworthy aspects came marching along. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, here are th...
Enabled by the Revolving Door, Corporatistic US Trade Policy Seems to Put US Drug Companies Ahead of Global Public Health
We just discussed how leaders of big health care corporations with histories of ethical and legal missteps want to export our supposedly ...
Do Health Care Leaders Realize They Do Not Practice What They Preach?
When we began Health Care Renewal in late 2004, we focused on "concentration and abuse of power" as a driver of dysfunction in the...
Director of Bristol-Myers-Squibb to Run Weill Cornell Medical School
How the New York Times reported on a change in leadership at one New York medical school has made one issue of interest to Health Care Renew...
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All the shenanigans that went on in the course of Merck's marketing of the now withdrawn Cox-2 inhibitor non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...
