In my blog post of August 5 I detailed a story about how drug maker Wyeth paid professional, non-physician ghostwriters…
In another exhibition of corporate greed over public good in the pharmaceutical sector, a recently released document (available here) reveals…
Yesterday the pharmaceutical behemoth Pfizer agreed to pay 2.3 billion dollars to settle civil and criminal lawsuits that alleged it…
As a follow up to my blog post of August 6, New York State last week passed a law that…
Most people think of carbon monoxide poisoning as coming from automobile exhaust or faulty heating systems and indeed much of…
In the United States physicians are permitted to prescribe medications to patients to treat conditions that are not specifically listed…
If you drive anywhere in the city of New York (or apparently anywhere else in the tri-state area as well)…
The use of ghostwriters---professional writers who assist non-writers to write a book or article and who are paid for their…
Many of you have no doubt heard the repeated hue and cry of some who complain that doctors are being…
The U S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency that is part of the United States Department of…
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