Posted by Admin | 1:48 PM

In Silver Blaze , Sherlock Holmes noted the important clue of the watchdog that did not bark.  In health care, nowadays watchdogs are absent...

Labels: intimidation, SUNY, SUNY - Upstate Medical University, whistle-blowers

Posted by Admin | 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...

Labels: Amgen, anechoic effect, cancer, legal settlements, Northwestern University, whistle-blowers

Posted by Admin | 11:27 AM

Watson, quick, the game's afoot.  We have discussed a large number of legal settlements by large health care organizations that serve a...

Labels: conflicts of interest, legal settlements, Northwestern University, whistle-blowers

Posted by Admin | 1:12 PM

The world's largest research based pharmaceutical company was in court again, as reported by the New York Times,  The drug maker Pfizer...

Labels: crime, impunity, legal settlements, marketing, Pfizer, whistle-blowers, Wyeth

Posted by Admin | 9:20 AM

Evidence has been seeping into public view about the extent physicians who sign up to take care of patients as corporate employees give up ...

Labels: confidentiality clause, contracts, corporate physician, deception, health care ethics, marketing, mission-hostile management, whistle-blowers

Posted by Admin | 9:28 AM

Screening for and aggressive treatment of prostate cancer has become an enormously lucrative business, if not necessarily a life-saving medi...

Labels: C R Bard, deferred prosecution agreement, impunity, kickbacks, legal settlements, prostate cancer, whistle-blowers

Posted by Admin | 2:28 PM

On this US election day, we seem to be in a mini-squall of cases involving unethical, deceptive, and now very colorful marketing practices u...

Labels: bribery, conflicts of interest, corporate integrity agreements, crime, fraud, kickbacks, legal settlements, whistle-blowers