Posted by Admin | 9:16 AM

For years, clinical practice guidelines promulgated by prominent health care organizations have been hailed with accolades as received wisdo...

Labels: American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, conflicts of interest, evidence-based medicine, guidelines, logical fallacies

Posted by Admin | 10:41 PM

WHEN IS DISCLOSURE NOT DISCLOSURE? Hint: When it is made by the Chairman of the DSM-5 Task Force. Here is a case study in conflict of intere...

Labels: Bernard Carroll, conflicts of interest, David Kupfer, deception, DSM-5, JAMA, JAMA Psychiatry, NIMH, Robert Gibbons, Thomas Insel

Posted by Admin | 11:54 AM

Yet another leader of a big health care organization seems to have acquired the excessively entitled CEO syndrome. Another Brilliant, Fearle...

Labels: conflicts of interest, executive compensation, public relations, SUNY, Upstate Medical University

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 | 2:29 PM

While we often point out the pervasiveness of conflicts of interest in medicine and health care, and the likely ill effects of this state o...

Labels: conflicts of interest, economism, market fundamentalism

Posted by Admin | 12:39 PM

Increasingly, the regulatory and law enforcement functions of the US government in the health care sphere seem to be blending with the manag...

Labels: conflicts of interest, FDA, health care corruption, Mylan, revolving doors, Teva, US Department of Justice

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