Posted by Admin | 2:10 PM

We have discussed, most recently here , how marketers of health care goods and services use deception and psychological manipulation to sel...

Labels: deception, marketing, pharmaceuticals

Posted by Admin | 9:05 AM

The  U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday drug-safety labeling changes and new post-market study requirements for all ...

Labels: drug abuse, drug companies, federal regulation, infant mortality, neonatal care, pharmaceuticals, prescription drug abuse

Posted by Admin | 12:26 PM

The Best Health Care System in the World?  Here in the US, a lot of people have been convinced that we have the best health care system in t...

Labels: National Health Assembly, pharmaceuticals, Thailand, WHO Good Governance for Medicines Programme

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 | 10:40 AM

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whose public statements usually emphasize the need to cut federal spending on entitlem...

Labels: Congress, lobbying, lobbyists, pharmaceuticals, politics

Posted by Admin | 12:25 PM

A state court will hear the Kentucky attorney general's 2007 lawsuit against OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma , against the wishes o...

Labels: addiction, Appalachia, courts, drug abuse, drug treatment, drugs, pharmaceuticals, prescription drug abuse, prescription drugs

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 | 8:00 AM

I think it worth noting that critical writers about both health IT and pharma attract a similar phenomenon: the anonymous attack accusing t...

Labels: Derek Lowe, In the Pipeline, pharmaceuticals, sockpuppet

Posted by Admin | 7:37 AM

Two courses and two conferences of interest to Health Care Renewal readers are coming soon. Short Course: Why Do Physicians Not Make Rationa...

Labels: deception, health care corruption, health care ethics, judgment and decision psychology, marketing, pharmaceuticals

Posted by Admin | 8:00 AM

We have often discussed the anechoic effect , how cases involving or discussions of the topics we address on Health Care Renewal , the conce...

Labels: anechoic effect, direct to consumer advertising, intimidation, pharmaceuticals, SSRIs

Posted by Admin | 10:35 PM

Sadly, the 'xtranormal' video cartoons at the following URL capture all too well what life is like in the pharmaceutical industry - ...

Labels: Mismanagement, pharmaceuticals