By Gusty Friday 4 September 2015 anechoic effect conflicts of interest corporatism DHHS revolving doors 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...
By Gusty Wednesday 8 July 2015 boards of directors conflicts of interest executive compensation mission-hostile management Mylan perverse incentives Good Health and Who Benefits? - Rising Generic Drug Prices and the Case of Mylan's Conflicted Property Purchases. Elvonda Rising Generic Drug Prices Health care costs in the US continue their seemingly inexorable rise. Even the parts of health care that used to...
By Gusty Friday 26 June 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology anechoic effect conflicts of interest health care prices institutional conflicts of interest medical societies You heard it here first 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...
By Gusty Tuesday 2 June 2015 conflicts of interest NEJM New England Journal of Medicine propaganda surveys Good Health and Say It Ain't So, Again - a "Push Poll" to Minimize the Hazards of Conflicts of Interest ...in the New England Journal of Medicine?. Elvonda The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a remarkable series of apologiae for conflicts of interest,(1-4) about which we have ...
By Gusty Thursday 21 May 2015 conflicts of interest logical fallacies NEJM Good Health and Say It Ain't So: Logical Fallacies in Defense of Conflicts of Interest ... in the New England Journal of Medicine?. Elvonda Introduction We have been viewing with alarm the web of conflicts of interest draped over medicine and health care since we started Health C...
By Gusty Sunday 17 May 2015 conflicts of interest New England Journal of Medicine pharmaceuticals Good Health and BLOGSCAN - New England Journal of Medicine Scoffs at "Pharmascolds" . Elvonda The venerable New England Journal of Medicine has now published an editorial,(1) and two commentaries(2-3), with one more promised, hailing ...
By Gusty Sunday 3 May 2015 conflicts of interest health care corruption hospital systems pharmaceuticals regulatory capture Good Health and Innovations form the Safra Center Ending iCorruption Conference. Elvonda I had the pleasure of attending the Ending iCorruption Conference , the capstone conference for the Edmond J Safra Research Lab on Instituti...
By Gusty Monday 13 April 2015 amphetamines conflicts of interest fda health care corruption revolving doors You heard it here first 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...