Category Archives: Headline of the Day
Glaxo Says It Will Stop Paying Doctors to Promote Drugs
December 18, 2013New York Times | December 16, 2013 | By KATIE THOMAS The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will no longer pay doctors to promote its products and will stop tying compensation
FDA Issues Warning on Recalled Medtronic Device
November 18, 2013WSJ By Joseph Walker – Nov. 16, 2013 2:27 p.m. ET | Regulators have determined that defects in some medical devices made by Medtronic Inc. have the potential to cause serious harm or death, according
Transparency, Not Marketing
November 18, 2013NY Times | November 17, 2013, Rosemary Gibson – Americans have just learned that they need to divorce themselves from a drug-prescribing regimen that has been marketed for decades to supposedly mend
J.&J. to Pay $2.2 Billion in Risperdal Settlement
November 5, 2013New York Times By KATIE THOMAS November 4, 2013 | Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay more than $2.2 billion in criminal and civil fines to settle accusations that it improperly
Pronovost Lauds Patient Reporting of Adverse Events via FDA Site
October 25, 2013Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, October 24, 2013 | The FDA apparently isn’t satisfied that doctors and hospitals are reporting all they know about drug errors and harm from medical
In The Race For ‘Fanciest Hospital In Town,’ Patient Safety Loses Out
October 24, 201399.9WBUR Wed, Oct 02, 2013 by Ashish Jha Hospital, or Hilton? Ashish Jha says too often patient safety takes a backseat to marketing efforts. In this photo, the main atrium of
Brand-name Drug Choices Drive State’s High Medicare Costs
October 21, 2013C-Hit.org By: Lisa Chedekel | October 21, 2013 | Connecticut seniors on Medicare are more likely to take sedatives for insomnia and medications for depression than their counterparts across the
Robot Surgery Damaging Patients Rises With Marketing
October 11, 2013Bloomberg.com By Robert Langreth Oct 8, 2013 12:00 AM ET Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver announced last year that Warren Kortz, a general surgeon on the medical staff, was the first
Count the Dead From Medical Harm
October 9, 2013HuffingtonPost.com October 8, 2013 by Rosemary Gibson | The military counts its dead and wounded even though politicians would prefer to hide the truth. Public health officials count the deceased and
The cost of lobbying in Connecticut – 2 Articles
September 23, 2013The CT Mirror By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Just how much was spent last year lobbying legislators? The Office of State Ethics reported Wednesday that special interest