By Gusty Thursday, 21 July 2016 Abilify Bristol-Myers-Squibb crime impunity kickbacks legal settlements logical fallacies Good Health and Law and Order? - Bristol-Myers-Squibb Settles Case Alleging Fraud and Kickbacks, No Admissions of Guilt, No Individuals Charged. Elvonda Introduction Donald Trump, Republican candidate for the US presidency last week announced he is the "law and order" candidate, ac...
By Gusty Sunday, 20 March 2016 Cancer fda logical fallacies New England Journal of Medicine Partners Healthcare Good Health and There They Go Again - the New England Medical Journal Publishes another Rant, this Time about Power Morcellation. Elvonda In 2015, we noted ( here and here ) that the New England Journal of Medicine seemed to have been reduced to publishing rants about "ph...
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 Wednesday, 23 September 2015 boards of directors CME conflicts of interest fda key opinion leaders logical fallacies revolving doors Good Health and Turn That Door Around - A Physician Substantially Tied to the Pharmaceutical Industry Nominated to Run the FDA. Elvonda It seems to be the season of the revolving door in health care. The latest version got some media attention, because it involves one of t...
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...