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The Mystery of the Northwestern Settlement - the Plot Thickens

Posted by | 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...

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

Posted by | 12:18 PM
We recently posted a discussion of the results of Transparency International's 2013 corruption barometer , focusing on the US results.  ...

Amgen CEOs Prosper Despite (or Because of) Continuing Ethical Questions

Posted by | 8:31 AM
This is becoming a familiar narrative on Health Care Renewal : top health care leaders continue to enrich themselves while their organizati...

How the "Revolving Door" and Other Aspects of Corporatism Benefited Amgen Just After its Settlement and Guilty Plea

Posted by | 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...

Amgen Settles, Pleads Guilty to Misbranding Aranesp

Posted by | 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 ...

"Peer Benchmarking," the "Lake Wobegone Effect," and Outsize Executive Compensation: the Amgen Example

Posted by | 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...