Posted by Admin | 11:40 AM

The case of the over-marketing of Kyphon's kyphoplasty device (look here ) just got more complicated, and now appears to have involved a...

Labels: HCA, impunity, Kyphon, legal settlements, medical devices, Medtronic, mergers

Posted by Admin | 7:19 AM

The revolving door spins, and where it will stop, nobody knows... In October, 2010, we noted questions about how Dr Stephen Ondra got to be ...

Labels: corporatism, health insurance, Medtronic, revolving doors, Veterans Affairs, White House

Posted by Admin | 1:32 PM

On the heels of our discussion of how one pharmaceutical company employed a "publications strategy" to commission and control ran...

Labels: BMP-2, conflicts of interest, deception, ghost writing, manipulating clinical research, Medtronic

Posted by Admin | 11:40 AM

And the march of legal settlements continues... Circling around the block and coming in front of the viewing stand again is device manufact...

Labels: conflicts of interest, ICD, impunity, kickbacks, legal settlements, medical devices, Medtronic

Posted by Admin | 11:36 AM

There they go again.  Another US government health care leader, this time the top health care leader at the end of the previous George W Bus...

Labels: conflicts of interest, corporatism, embedded networks of influence, HHS, Medtronic, power elite, revolving doors