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The Mystery of the Northwestern Settlement - the Plot Thickens
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1:02 PM
A few weeks ago, we wrote about this curious case. How the Case Stood Northwester University, a prominent research university, settled charg...
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Why Do People Think US Health Care is Corrupt? - The Examples of Amgen, Mallinckrodt Settling Charges of Giving Kickbacks to Doctors to Induce them to Prescribe Their Products, While No Individual Suffers Negative Consequences
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12:18 PM
We recently posted a discussion of the results of Transparency International's 2013 corruption barometer , focusing on the US results. ...
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Amgen CEOs Prosper Despite (or Because of) Continuing Ethical Questions
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8:31 AM
This is becoming a familiar narrative on Health Care Renewal : top health care leaders continue to enrich themselves while their organizati...
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How the "Revolving Door" and Other Aspects of Corporatism Benefited Amgen Just After its Settlement and Guilty Plea
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8:52 AM
At least here in these United States, our health care corporatism is bipartisan. Here we present a sorry story of how a company that should...
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Amgen Settles, Pleads Guilty to Misbranding Aranesp
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1:50 PM
Now it's Amgen's turn to settle and plead. Per the New York Times, The biotechnology giant Amgen marketed its anemia drug Aranesp ...
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"Peer Benchmarking," the "Lake Wobegone Effect," and Outsize Executive Compensation: the Amgen Example
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11:58 AM
We recently discussed why health care's 99 percent may have reason to be upset with the one percent, the elite that run health care orga...
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