Posted by Admin | 1:42 PM

Mickey, the semi-anonymous blogger on 1BoringOldMan, wrote a righteously angry post in support of transparent clinical research.  As we hav...

Labels: AbbeVie, Abbott, deception, InterMune, mission-hostile management, secrecy, suppression of medical research

Posted by Admin | 11:45 AM

Suppression of data about defects in and failures of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) was one of the big issues we featured in the ...

Labels: adverse effects, defective devices, ICD, medical devices, secrecy, St Jude Medical, suppression of medical research

Posted by Admin | 1:02 PM

While primary care falters in the US, those who teach it seem to feel increasingly poverty stricken.  Now it appears that one reason for thi...

Labels: academic medical centers, accountability, deception, Hospitals, mission-hostile management, post-graduate medical education, secrecy, transparency

Posted by Admin | 9:21 AM

A case, reported by the New York Times as involving an intellectual property dispute, should create a lot of cognitive dissonance about the...

Labels: cancer, intellectual property, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, mission-hostile management, secrecy, University of Pennsylvania

Posted by Admin | 11:58 AM

In a single sentence, a short, obscure article in the Worcester (MA) Business Journal on life at a community hospital after a for-profit cor...

Labels: anechoic effect, Cerberus, confidentiality clause, gag clause, private equity, secrecy, Steward Health Care, whistle-blowers