A group of University of Minnesota professors want the board of regents to investigate the suicide of a patient enrolled in a university-run drug study. the professors demand the regents appoint an independent outside panel of experts to examine potential ethics violations in the death of Dan Markingson, a mentally ill patient who killed himself after taking an experimental psychiatric drug developed by AstraZeneca.
Cleveland Clinic on Wednesday will host the first in a series of meetings with local business leaders aimed at promoting ethical business practices. The meeting comes at a time when numerous Northeast Ohio businesses have been ensnared in federal corruption investigations built on allegations of illegal hiring and rigged bidding processes overseen by Cuyahoga County officials.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Sen. Charles Grassley fired off the latest in a series of letters aimed at the healthcare bureaucracy, this times asking Food & Drug Administration chief Dr. Margaret Hamburg how her agency handles physicians' potential conflicts of interest.
An independent study by HealthGrades of patient outcomes at America's hospitals found that patients at 5-star rated hospitals had a 72 percent lower risk of dying when compared with patients at 1-star-rated hospitals -- an enormous gap that has held steady over years even as overall mortality rates improved.
Forty-four percent of the people who took a poll by the Nashville Business Journal think their city's medical trade center project is key for economic development so it should get state tax credits to draw tenants.
A quick scan of Dr. Frank Cerra's 14-year tenure as head of the University of Minnesota's health science programs causes one word to come to mind: "Big." Yet big doesn't always mean better. In fact, big can be downright ugly. Under Cerra's watch, the medical school suffered what critics call embarrassing ethical lapses between its physicians and industry.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
"Well, the book is not particularly kind to the drug and device industry, which seems to be your main readership," Dr. Carl Elliott wrote in an e-mail. Um... yeah. With a book called White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, you know you're not getting a puff piece on Pfizer.
Twenty-five out of 32 highly paid consultants to medical device companies in 2007 -- or their publishers -- failed to reveal the financial connections in journal articles the following year, according to a study released on Monday, the New York Times reported.
Frankly, if there is one issue in medicine that doesn't need more attention right now, its cancer (I make one exception: we need more journalists who know how cover the cost-effectiveness of new cancer drugs that extend life by less than three months).
JAMA this month has commentary piece on the ethical failure of physicians in the CIA Office of Medical Services (OMS) who helped organize, calibrate, and supervise the torture of unarmed, often innocent prisoners at Guantanamo. The principle of “do no harm” was abrogated by these lackey yahoos as they provided a professional cover to acts […]
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It looks like the Massachusetts “gift ban” won’t be repealed after all. A provision to spike the Commonwealth’s ban on gifts for physicians from medical device and pharmaceutical companies failed to make it into the final omnibus economic development bill on Beacon Hill, meaning the gift ban remains intact unless the legislature brings up the […]
I received a heart breaking email recently. Frankly it made me cry. There are a lot of patient confidentiality details I must withhold but it is worth expressing this story. A care giver emailed me concerning a loved one he/she is taking care of (for ease of reading, this person will be female and the […]
I find it interesting that I can't get a $0.10 pen from the drug companies any longer, but our patients can get billions of dollars in advertising given to them "free" without any concern about what this is costing our health care system.
An omnibus economic development bill wending its way through the Mass. House of Representatives could end the Bay State’s two-year-old “gift ban” governing the relationship between the medical device and pharmaceutical industries and physicians. The gift ban, passed in 2008 and put into effect last year, was aimed at reducing the influence of Big Pharma […]
The Nobel prize winning NGO Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has published a widely circulated white paper detailing “experiments” conducted by physicians and other medical personnel on detainees at Guantanamo. Read the paper. It’s a grisly, soul-sapping compendium of state-sanctioned, state-organized human experimentation. Remember those OLC torture memos that war criminals John Yoo and Jay […]