Good Health and How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar. Elvonda

Fears that "the system is rigged" may cause the lack of trust marring this year's political season. These fears are not basele...

Good Health and Ho-hum, Another Month, Another Set of Multi-Million Dollar Settlements by Health Care Corporations Acting Badly. Elvonda

Amazingly, with a US presidential election looming, there is finally some public discussion here of the impunity of top corporate executiv...

Good Health and Academic Medical Leaders as Directors of For-Profit Health Care Corporations: the Prevalence of This "New Species" of Conflict of Interest Documented in the BMJ. Elvonda

The important conflicts of interest generated when academic health care leaders also serve on the boards of directors of for-profit health ...

Good Health and How Institutional Conflicts of Interest Exacerbate the Anechoic Effect - the Example of ASCO Fearing "Biting the Hand that Feeds You". Elvonda

As we recently discussed ( here , here , here and here ), in May, 2015, the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably the world's forem...

Good Health and More Barbarians at the Gates: Private Equity Puts Primary Care in Play. Elvonda

There are still some idealistic physicians who enter primary care practice as a calling. The usual informal definition of primary care is ca...

Good Health and "God Damn the Pusher Man" - Especially when Enabled by the FDA Revolving Door. Elvonda

Who is watching the watchers?  A story this week involving "speed" like drugs added to "dietary supplements" suggests ho...