New White Paper: America’s Unaccountable Generic Drug Industry; How Legal Immunity Could Be Making You Sick
January 4, 2014
December 10, 2013 CENTER FOR JUSTICE & DEMOCRACY RELEASES NEW WHITE PAPER: America’s Unaccountable Generic Drug Industry; How Legal Immunity Could Be Making You Sick In a new White Paper
How a cow could kill you: New antibiotic guidelines still fail to protect public
December 29, 2013
CNN Opinion By Louise M. Slaughter and Robert S. Lawrence December 27, 2013 Strep throat should not kill you. Nor should a knee scratch that becomes infected. For decades, the world has
Glaxo Says It Will Stop Paying Doctors to Promote Drugs
December 18, 2013
New 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, 2013
WSJ 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, 2013
NY 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, 2013
New 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, 2013
Cheryl 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, 2013
99.9WBUR 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, 2013
C-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, 2013
Bloomberg.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