Good Health and A Tenet of Impunity - Tenet Settles Kickback Allegations for $514 Million, No Individual Suffers Any Negative Consequences. Elvonda

Tramp, tramp, tramp.  The march of legal settlements continues.  The latest entry is a corporation that has had a 20 plus year history of l...

Good Health and Bad Apple or Bad Orchard? - A Narrative of Alleged Individual Research Misconduct that Sidestepped the Pharmaceutical Corporate Context. Elvonda

Tales of medical research misconduct seem increasingly prevalent in the media, and are getting increasing attention.    They often may prese...

Good Health and Transparency International Reports on Massive Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Sector - Media Hardly Notices. Elvonda

Health Care Corruption as a Taboo Topic Transparency International (TI) defines corruption as Abuse of entrusted power for private gain In ...

Good Health and New Jersey Confidential: the Almost Secret Membership of the RWJ Barnabas Health Board. Elvonda

A Hospital System Tries to Hide its Board of Trustees The US Internal Revenue Service mandates disclosure of the membership of boards of tru...

Good Health and What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed. Elvonda

What you see if often not what you get.   Nine years ago, three top executives of Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of ...

Good Health and A Small Challenge to Impunity - Lawsuit Against Former Synthes CEO Proceeds. Elvonda

Numerous allegations of bad behavior by big health care organizations, some apparently causing patient harm, have resulted in legal settleme...

Good Health and Round and Round It Goes - Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services Joins Humacyte Board. Elvonda

The latest example of the health care revolving door was made barely public just before the US Labor Day holiday.  Per the Triangle Business...

Good Health and Northwestern Upholds its "Brand," Never Mind Free Speech and Academic Freedom. Elvonda

Threats to free speech and academic freedom in health care were a major concern when we started Health Care Renewal .  Such threats may no...