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 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...

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...

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-...

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...

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...