By Gusty Wednesday, 10 August 2016 boards of directors Brookings Institution Hepatitis C Johnson and Johnson revolving doors You heard it here first Good Health and How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar. Elvonda Fears that "the system is rigged" may cause the lack of trust marring this year's political season. These fears are not basele...
By Gusty Thursday, 26 May 2016 conflicts of interest NIH Partners Healthcare revolving doors Good Health and Are You Ready for Some (Political) Football? - the NFL, Concussion Research, the NIH, and the Revolving Door. Elvonda Probably because it involved the favorite American sport, the controversy about the risk of concussions to professional National Football Le...
By Gusty Thursday, 19 November 2015 conflicts of interest fda medical journals NEJM New England Journal of Medicine revolving doors Good Health and What Revolving Door? - An Unprecedented Endorsement of a Political Appointment by the "Gold Standard" Medical Journal. Elvonda An Unprecedented Endorsement It's deja vu all over again. In the spring of 2015, the New England Journal, the most prestigious US medi...
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 Friday, 18 September 2015 NIH NIMH revolving doors Thomas Insel Good Health and A Quiet Turn of the Revolving Door - Director of NIMH to Go Directly to Google Life Sciences. Elvonda Amidst a lot of health care news, the job plans of Dr Thomas Insel, currently the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (part ...
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 Thursday, 16 July 2015 AHIP Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cms HCA Medicare revolving doors Good Health and Turn, Turn, Turn - from Columbia/ HCA Executive, to Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to America's Healt Insurance Plans (AHIP). Elvonda Marilyn Tavenner's career continues to revolve, er, evolve. Columbia/ HCA Marilyn Tavenner worked for Columbia / HCA, now HCA, although ...