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Why Don't Drug Labels Make the Actual Harms and Benefits Clear?

jm wrote 1 month ago: By Jacob Molyneux, blog editor/senior editor How can we know if a drug really works? Gary Schwitzer, … more →

Tags: Comparative Effectiveness Research, health-care reform, Pharmaceuticals, physicians, comparative effectiveness, Drug Label, Evidence, FDA, harms and benefits

Pharma Drops Search Advertising After FDA Warning

Drug Recall Watch wrote 2 months ago: Pharmaceutical companies, fearful of running afoul of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s … more →

Tags: News, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, FDA Warning, FDA drug warning, Paid Search, pay-per-click ads

How Pharma Uses Medical Ghostwriters to Push Through Its Brand-Name Drugs1 comment

James Ridgeway wrote 4 months ago: Under Obama’s plan—assuming there is a plan—the pharmaceutical industry in all likelihood escapes pr … more →

Tags: Corporations, Drug industry, Health Care, media, Medicare, Obama Administration, Public Safety, Big Pharma, Brand Name Drugs

Money Talks: Profit Before Patient Safety

Amy Philo wrote 5 months ago: … more →

Tags: Drug safety, celebrex, drug companies hiding data, No Free Lunch, Vioxx

News Program Demographics

Tracy wrote 6 months ago: I try to catch the national news programs, but I don’t always get home from work in time. Bein … more →

Tags: TV, News, direct to consumers

Blogs I Like: Pharmamotion1 comment

creaky wrote 9 months ago: A physician-blogger from Argentina recently wrote to ask me to take a look at his site, called Pharm … more →

Tags: News & Medical News, Videos & Podcasts, Educational sites, Other Stuff, Pharmacology and Clinical Therapeutics, Teaching-and-Learning in Medicine, Drug Marketing, Basic Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology

The sorry state of Health Care

rkurzweil wrote 10 months ago: It is amazing to me that the United States is the richest nation in the world, yet we lag behind oth … more →

Tags: General, Politics, corruption, drugs, FDA, Health Care, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Uninsured

Doctor's Pay and HMOs - How to Fix HealthCare System

Linda Shelton wrote 11 months ago: I do not believe that my colleagues who make 1 million dollars per year for doing open heart surgery … more →

Tags: capitalism, Economy, Health Care, HealthCare-Industrial Complex, healthcare executive salaries, HMO, National Health Plans, Pharmaceutical, physician pay

Questions for Obama and America - Solutions for Change1 comment

Linda Shelton wrote 11 months ago: I very much would like the public to engage in a debate on these suggestions – which are a beg … more →

Tags: capitalism, communications, corrupt judges, Courts, Crime, Economy, Education, Government Corruption, Health Care

Ask for it by Name!

obvioustruths wrote 11 months ago: I have come a long way toward answering some  of the questions in my previous post about drug advert … more →

Tags: Healthcare Costs, DTC, DTCA, Health Care

Daddy what is an erection?

obvioustruths wrote 11 months ago: Do you cringe at the drug ads that come on while watching television with your children?   There is … more →

Purple Pills and Puffery

Josh Greenberg wrote 1 year ago: This post is about promotionalism and the pharmaceutical industry. Some of the ideas come from a pap … more →

Tags: everyday life, Health promotion, Lifestyle Risks, Politics, Popular Culture, DTC advertising, governance, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health

Drug Advertising is a Scourge on Society

strayblog wrote 1 year ago: Nothing has me more anguished these days than the parade of ads on television for products like Viag … more →

Tags: Viagra, cialis, Yaz, Pfizer

study: psych drug ads misleading

missisyphus wrote 1 year ago: from fiercepharma: 4. Study: Psych drug ads misleading Comment | Forward to a friend Ads for psych d … more →

Tags: psych drug ads misleading

Drug Pushers, Inc.1 comment

Jon Taplin wrote 1 year ago: The New York Times ran a fairly long article today about Pfizer’s use of Dr. Robert Jarvik as … more →

Tags: Politics, advertising, Television, New York Times, Robert Jarvik

Psych Drugs, Shady Practices and One Fixer

Trisha Torrey wrote 2 years ago: In 2003, after taking Zoloft for six weeks to help him sleep, Woody Witczak, a vivacious, intelligen … more →

Tags: Medical and Research Studies, Medical Commentary, health, Patient Tools, Healthcare Quality, Patient Empowerment, Medical News, Pharmaceutical Drugs, patients


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