Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma

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Tags:ethics, medicine, science
Description:Updates and Commentary related to Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry, by Howard Brody, MD, PhD (Rowman and Littlefield, January, 2007)
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Two-for-One Special over at Health Care Renewal
Roy Poses over at the Health Care Renewal site has been blogging up a storm. Rather than try to summarize or encapsulate, I'll simply point toward two valuable posts:On yet more evidence of systema...more
2009-11-30
Beware the CER Trojan Horse in Senate Reform Bill
I'm a bit late picking up on this important Perspective in the New England Journal:http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0910747?resourcetype=HWCITThe co-author is long-time Pharma watcher ...more
2009-11-30
Another Example of Spin in Published Results of Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trials
Long-time readers of this blog may want to skip this post; but starry-eyed optimist that I am, I continue to believe that a new reader or two may show up once in a while, and so it may be worth add...more
2009-11-27
Yet More on Concealing Negative Antidepressant Data--from Germany
If any more evidence were needed that concealing negative data about (at least) antidepressants is a standard business plan among pharmaceutical companies, we can turn to: http://www.iqwig.de/index...more
2009-11-25
Follow the Money: Who's Screaming Loudest about Mammogram Guidelines?
Thanks again to Marilyn Mann's tip, I am pleased to recommend a post by our PharmedOut friends, Adriane Fugh-Berman and Alice Bell:http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4194T...more
2009-11-25
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Marilyn Mann

Inside the Belly of the Medical Communications Beast
Here is another paper I should have been all over earlier this year--again apologies for my tardiness.Sergio Sismondo is a philosopher and science-and-technology-studies (STS) guy at Queen's Univer...more
2009-11-24
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Marilyn Mann

Kids, Antidepressants, and Suicide Risk: A Review of Commercial Bias
Here's a somewhat old paper that I should have posted about some time ago-- thanks to "Primary Care Medical Abstracts," aka Rick Bukata and Jerry Hoffman, for their audio review that brought it to ...more
2009-11-24
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Marilyn Mann

More from "Evidence in Medicine"--Loss of Trust Matters
My most recent post cited for the first time the "Evidence in Medicine" blog managed by David Rind. I am again indebted to Marilyn Mann for pointing out an eloquent post on the same blog:http://www...more
2009-11-22
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Marilyn Mann

No Fair Peeking? More Questions about Early Stopping of Trials
In the previous post I mentioned the recent findings about ezetimibe, which happened to be part of the study called ARBITER 6. As one evidence-based blogger, Dr. David Rind has noted--http://www.ev...more
2009-11-18
More Bad News on Ezetimibe--So Why Do We Still Take It?
In the past I did several posts on the ENHANCE trial (like, http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2008/01/now-that-weve-been-enhanced-whats.html) that showed that ezetimibe (Zetia, Vytorin) was a flop at...more
2009-11-16

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