By Gusty Thursday, 7 July 2016 anechoic effect clinical research integrity clinical trials New York University Pfizer pharmaceuticals 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...
By Gusty Tuesday, 21 June 2016 Bernard Carroll citalopram clinical trials Eric Topol escitalopram fda Forest Pharmaceuticals Jay Amsterdam Jon Jureidini Leemon McHenry Lisa Cosgrove Lundbeck Underwriters Laboratory vortioxetine Good Health and CORRUPTION OF CLINICAL TRIALS REPORTS: A PROPOSAL. Elvonda CORRUPTION OF CLINICAL TRIALS REPORTS: A PROPOSAL There is a disconnection between the FDA�s drug approval process and the reports we see in...
By Gusty Tuesday, 22 December 2015 academic medical centers amphetamines clinical trials generic managers managerialism medical ethics post-graduate medical education resident sleep deprivation Good Health and How Managerialists Turned Housestaff Training into a Zero-Sum Game: the Continuing Saga of the FIRST and iCompare Studies. Elvonda A ongoing controversy about two controlled trials (FIRST and iCompare) meant to test the bizarre hypothesis that sleep depriving medical hou...
By Gusty Thursday, 3 December 2015 clinical trials informed consent logical fallacies managerialism medical ethics nuremberg code resident sleep deprivation Good Health and Drinking the Managerialists' Kool-Aid? - Why Did Medical Educators Launch Trials of Increased Sleep Deprivation of Physician Trainees Apparently in Violation of the Nuremberg Code?. Elvonda It all seemed so bizarre. In 2014, with little fanfare, two large trials that imposed longer work hours and sleep deprivation on physician-...
By Gusty Thursday, 30 July 2015 CHF clinical trials Entresto evidence-based medicine manipulating clinical research Novartis sacubitril Good Health and Entresto: Blockbuster, or Just Over Hyped? - Whatever, It Will Cost $4500 a Year. Elvonda The newest drug for congestive heart failure, Entresto, a fixed combination of valsartan and sacubitril, has just hit the market at an eleva...
By Gusty Wednesday, 25 March 2015 anechoic effect AstraZeneca atypical anti-psychotics clinical trials conflicts of interest manipulating clinical research research subjects suppression of medical research University of Minnesota Good Health and Two New Independent Reports on the Death of Dan Markingson, But Now What Will Happen? . Elvonda Years after his death, there is now a little more clarity about the clinical trial in which Dan Markingson was enrolled when he died. Wheth...