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NYU Faculty Vote No Confidence in their President

thumbnail Faculty at large American universities, in which most of the country's medical schools and teaching hospitals are embedded, are becoming...

A Condemnation of Suppression of Medical Research... by Ben Goldacre in the New York Times

thumbnail Amazingly, this topic now seems to be in the mainstream. The Goldacre Version in the New York Times in 2013 In his op-ed , Ben Goldacre intr...

What If the Institute of Medicine Wrote a Report and Nobody Followed it? - the Case of the Standards for Developing Trustworthy Guidelines

thumbnail For over 20 years, clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been touted to improve health care quality and control costs.  Enormous numbers ...

Why Did the Global Fund Fire its Inspector General?

thumbnail The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria continues to struggle with the issue of health care corruption, an issue we noted h...

Traits that "Define a Great Hospital CFO" - Honesty, Integrity, Accountability not Included

thumbnail A recent article in Becker's Hospital Review entitled, "6 Traits That Define a Great Hospital CFO" [Chief Financial Officer] ...

The Case of the Vanishing Graduate Medical Education Funds

thumbnail While primary care falters in the US, those who teach it seem to feel increasingly poverty stricken.  Now it appears that one reason for thi...

A Case Demonstrating Links Between Poor Governance, Conflicts of Interest, and Excess Executive Compensation at a Hospital System

thumbnail The Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System in California first appeared on our radar in 2011 for not only giving an improbably large sev...

Retreat Back to Regulatory Capture: US FDA, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services All Back Off

thumbnail After some brave words about transparency, integrity and all that, US government officials seem to be running back to the arms of the health...

What the Pfizer (II)? - Lack of Transparency About Dysfunctional Leadership

thumbnail The recent in-depth investigation by Fortune reporters of 10 years of dysfunctional leadership at Pfizer , the "world's largest re...

Global Fund Will Not Suppress Discussion of Health Care Corruption

thumbnail Some good news to discuss, for a change.... We previously discussed losses from corruption reported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberc...