Tag: pharmaceutical industry

Podcast: The Top 10 Quotes of 2017

0
In this podcast for HealthNewsReview.org, Michael Joyce shares what he considers the 10 most compelling quotes from last year's podcast episodes. The quotes include a wide variety...

Reexamining Schizophrenia as a Brain Disease

52
Schizophrenia has occupied, and continues to occupy, a position of great import in psychiatry, and it is frequently used to assert the supposed biological nature of the field. What evidence is there to suggest that what we call schizophrenia is a disease of the brain? Surprisingly, very little.

Scientists Call for Increased Transparency in Research

2
Scientists at the Yale Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency (CRIT) published a new policy paper this month criticizing the current state of biomedical research and calling for improved transparency in research methods.

Vermont Probes Whether Drug Makers Violated its Gift Ban

0
From STAT: The Vermont attorney general is currently investigating whether drug and medical device companies may have violated state law by giving gifts or payments to health...

Former Eli Lilly Executive is Trump’s Choice for Health Secretary

1
From The New York Times: President Trump has nominated Alex M. Azar II, a former president of the American division of Eli Lilly, to be...

Conflicts of Interest at World Conference of Science Journalists

0
From HealthNewsReview.org: The 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, which occurred recently in San Francisco, received $600,000 total from pharmaceutical and healthcare product companies. In...

More Lavish the Gifts to Doctors Means Costlier Drugs Prescribed

0
From The New York Times: A new study found that when drug companies give gifts to doctors, the doctors prescribe higher quantities of — and more expensive —...

Drug Company Sales Reps Should be Banned From Hospitals

0
From STAT: Despite evidence that drug company sales reps skew prescribing habits, relatively few hospitals have taken the step of barring them. This is a...

Dr. David Healy: Seeking a Cure for Protracted, Medication-Related Sexual Dysfunction

13
An interview with Dr. David Healy, internationally respected psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist, and author, discussing Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) and his innovative approach to finding a cure.

Drug Dealers in Lab Coats

0
From The New York Times: For decades, America has waged an ineffective war on illicit drug dealers and drug lords. However, we have failed to...

How UCLA is Fighting a Proxy Patent Battle in India

0
From The Wire: Xtandi, a life-prolonging cancer drug, currently does not have a patent in India, meaning that Indian cancer patients are able to access...

The Drug Industry’s Triumph Over the DEA

0
In this piece for The Washington Post, Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein investigate how a handful of members of Congress, allied with some of the nation's...

On the Myth of the Chemical Imbalance

7
In this piece for Psychology Today, Mark L. Ruffalo critiques the chemical imbalance theory of mental disorder and examines why the chemical imbalance myth persists today despite...

An Anarchist Teaches Patients to Make Their Own Meds

2
From STAT: In response to rising drug costs, anarchist and biohacker Michael Laufer plans to teach people to manufacture their own medications. "The de facto leader...

Billion Dollar Deals and How They Changed Your World

4
A new BBC documentary, "Health," investigates the deals struck between health professionals and pharmaceutical companies. The documentary includes an interview with Dr. James Davies, co-founder of the...

Nonprofit Organization Pushes Big Pharma’s Agenda

1
From HealthNewsReview.org: The Alliance for Patient Access (AfPA), a nonprofit organization that claims to advocate for patients to have access to FDA-approved treatments, has consistently worked...

Payment Disclosure Bill is a Good First Step, but More is...

0
From The Globe and Mail: Ontario's newly proposed physician-payment disclosure law is an important first step in the direction of improved health care and increased...

Ontario Bill Will Reveal Drug Company Payments to Doctors

0
From the Toronto Star: The province of Ontario has introduced a new transparency bill that will require pharmaceutical and medical device companies to disclose payments they make...

Dr. Vinay Prasad Takes on Big Pharma and Big Medicine

3
In this piece for STAT, Meghana Keshavan profiles Dr. Vinay Prasad, a physician who has become an influential voice in the medical community through his...

Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues

0
From The New York Times: Tech companies are increasingly recruiting school teachers to help improve and promote their education tools in exchange for perks, including...

The State of the Evidence Base for Current Medical Products

0
In this post for Yale Law School's CRITical Thinking, Tom Jefferson discusses some of the factors that currently serve to undermine rational and ethical medical...

Biotech Exploits a Loophole in a Federal Transparency Law

0
From STAT: A small biotech company, AveXis, recently offered a $3,000 honorarium along with paid airfare and lodging to several experts to attend a so-called...

Pharma ‘Getting Away With Murder’ Abroad Thanks to Trump

1
From STAT: Despite accusing the pharmaceutical industry of "getting away with murder" by charging high drug prices, President Trump is now giving drug companies more power...

FDA Seeks Input on Drug Risk Information in Broadcast Ads

0
From FDA in Brief: The FDA seeks input from consumers and medical professionals on making sure the drug risk information in statements included in direct-to-consumer...

A Supreme Court Pharma Case Deals Consumers a Big Loss

0
From STAT: The U.S. Supreme Court case of Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. vs. Superior Court of California, in which hundreds of plaintiffs claimed the drug Plavix...