Posted by Admin | 11:55 AM

Evidence-based medicine proposes patient care decisions based on the best evidence from critically reviewed clinical research, knowledge of...

Labels: conflicts of interest, deception, evidence-based medicine, judgment and decision psychology, key opinion leaders, logical fallacies, marketing

Posted by Admin | 9:29 AM

Pro Publica has updated their database of payments by pharmaceutical payments to physicians and organizations.  It now has data from 15 comp...

Labels: conflicts of interest, key opinion leaders, logical fallacies, marketing, pharmaceuticals, stealth marketing

Posted by Admin | 7:57 AM

In 2007, we first discussed the case of the amazing pricing of H P Acthar, a very old drug of questionable usefulness, as an example of the...

Labels: ACTH, deception, executive compensation, health care prices, institutional conflicts of interest, key opinion leaders, manipulating clinical research, marketing, Questcor, suppression of medical research

Posted by Admin | 9:11 AM

This may be a first.  A Wall Street Journal story announced that the "key opinion leader" who played a pivotal role in the promot...

Labels: conflicts of interest, Endo Health Solutions, evidence-based medicine, guidelines, JCAHO, key opinion leaders, narcotics, Purdue Pharma, regulatory capture, stealth marketing

Posted by Admin | 11:56 AM

Without any notable shame, and as a guest blogger on KevinMd.  The post was about other physicians can become big-time KOLs by using social...

Labels: health care ethics, key opinion leaders, pharmaceuticals

Posted by Admin | 5:00 AM

The latest  and biggest legal settlement involving health care to hit the news, that of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the US government, has man...

Labels: CME, crime, deception, GlaxoSmithKline, key opinion leaders, kickbacks, legal settlements, manipulating clinical research, Martin Keller, Paxil, stealth marketing, suppression of medical research