Concerns about suppression and manipulation of clinical research to serve vested interests have finally gotten a little more mainstream. B...
Showing posts with label institutional conflicts of interest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label institutional conflicts of interest. Show all posts
A Call to Restore the Integrity of Clinical Research - but Will Anyone Heed it?
Concerns about suppression and manipulation of clinical research to serve vested interests have finally gotten a little more mainstream. B...
Oh, the Prices we Pay ... for Questionable Drug Marketing to Enrich Corporate Insiders - the Case of Questcor's H P Acthar Revisited
In 2007, we first discussed the case of the amazing pricing of H P Acthar, a very old drug of questionable usefulness, as an example of the...
The Parts of Professionalism We Are Not Supposed to Discuss
A recent article in a a relatively obscure medical ethics journal dared to approach some important aspects of medical ethics that medical et...
Two Steps Back: International Council on Human Rights Policy Closes, Dutch Healthy Skepticism Ends Domestic Focus
We have noted the paucity of organized efforts to combat health care corruption and related phenomena. What efforts exist tend to focus on...
Will the Freeze of the Global Fund Finally Put Health Care Corruption on the Agenda?
In February, 2011, we posted about problems with corruption affecting the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. At the time,...
Medical Societies Paid To Do Corporate Public Relations
Background Last year we posted about how two medical societies which received funding from a drug manufacturer tried to persuade the US Foo...
More Medical Societies Supported by Industry
There were several new reports about the extent that medical societies are supported by industry. Last week we asked whether the extent of...
Has the Heart Rhythm Society Become More Like a Marketing Firm?
ProPublica's and USA Today's joint investigation of one medical society's ties to industry has created a stir. (The full ProPub...
Who Is Really "Bullying?" - Academic Leaders and the Stifling of Critics of Conflicts of Interests
Universities, which are supposed to discover and disseminate knowledge, ought to be the foremost defenders of free speech and a free press. ...
