Posted by Admin | 8:16 AM

The game is afoot again.  A series of recent articles in the media described a series of cases whose mysterious interrelationships Sherlock ...

Labels: accountability, anechoic effect, concentration of power, Continuum Health Partners, hospital systems, mergers, Mismanagement

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 | 10:24 AM

On Health Care Renewal , we have noted how the direct care of patients in the US is increasingly in the hands of large corporations, often f...

Labels: anechoic effect, corporate physician, surveys

Posted by Admin | 8:53 AM

We have noted  (most recently here ),  that health care corruption, particularly its global nature and its presence in developed countries l...

Labels: anechoic effect, global health, health care corruption, Transparency International

Posted by Admin | 1:17 PM

In 2007, readers of the Annals of Internal Medicine could read part of the solution to a great medical mystery.(1)  For years, health care c...

Labels: anechoic effect, Medicare, perverse incentives, regulatory capture, reimbursement, RUC

Posted by Admin | 6:08 AM

Concerns about suppression and manipulation of clinical research to serve vested interests have finally gotten a little more mainstream. B...

Labels: anechoic effect, conflicts of interest, institutional conflicts of interest, manipulating clinical research, research subjects, suppression of medical research

Posted by Admin | 1:11 PM

It only took 15 years, but litigation related to one of the most important, but obscure cases of bad health care leadership and governance f...

Labels: AHERF, anechoic effect, legal settlements, You heard it here first