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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...