My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
Study examines FDA influence on design of pivotal drug studies An examination of the potential interaction between pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss future…
Public release date: 9-Aug-2011 Press release from PLoS Medicine Rather than ensure the proper attribution of authorship, rules set up by leading medical journals to define and credit authorship of…
The potential conflict of interest for leaders of AMCs serving on pharmaceutical boards About 40 percent of pharmaceutical company boards of directors examined had at least one member who…
Public release date: 19-Oct-2010 - [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320"] Money cash (Photo credit: @Doug88888)[/caption] TORONTO, October 19, 2010 – Pharmaceutical promotion may cause doctors to prescribe more expensively, less appropriately…
Public release date: 30-Sep-2010 ‘Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals’ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Fukitol - 1000mg ... How I Accidentally Became a Drug Dealer (Wed., Nov. 27 2013) ...item 2.. T.P.D.…
- You have written about the possibility of using "anti-love biotechnology" as a treatment. When would it be warranted? [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350"] English: Broken heart sewn back together (Photo…
Contact: Stephanie Burns sburns@bmj.com 44-020-738-36529 BMJ-British Medical Journal Competing interests should be declared -- and reported -- to maintain credibility of public health, say researchersAcademics with links to the pharmaceutical industry…
Article by: Peter Whoriskey Washington Post October 6, 2013 - 11:15 PM WASHINGTON – A scientific panel that shaped the federal government’s policy for testing the safety and effectiveness…
Taxpayers are being charged up to 40 times the usual cost for common over-the-counter products being prescribed by NHS doctors, The Telegraph can disclose. The NHS confirmed that inflated prices…
Contact: Kathy Fackelmann kfackelmann@gwu.edu 202-994-8354 George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services Conflict-of-interest restrictions needed to ensure strong FDA review Panel members with ties to industry might…
Several patients died in tests made possible by massive payoffs to Communist regime Tony Paterson Sunday, 12 May 2013 Leading Western pharmaceutical companies paid millions of pounds to former Communist…
Published time: February 28, 2013 01:36 AFP Photo / Louisa Gouliamaki The Greek government has reportedly accused 50 leading pharmaceutical companies of cutting off supplies of key medications to…
"The mechanism set up by PhRMA for consumers to make complaints does not function: the FAX machine is typically not connected and complaints go unanswered." Contact: Buffie Stephens buffiestephens@uncc.edu…
By Stephen Curry, The Guardian Monday, December 24, 2012 11:11 EST Topics: clinical trials You should read it because behind the anodyne cover lurks a tale of horrific fascination…
The Government must tackle the red-tape and research hold-ups hampering Britain’s pharmaceutical industry or risk seeing jobs and investment disappear overseas, one of the industry’s leading companies has warned. Novartis…
Re-Post for filing 2008 Clinical studies that are designed by pharmaceutical companies to promote use of their drugs are called "seeding" trials. While much has been written about the marketing…
The doctors claim that the state wastes money on unnecessary medicine that they blame for up to 20,000 deaths annually Kim Willsher in Paris guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 September 2012 12.18 EDT Half…
The Make-Believe Billion By Timothy Noah|Posted Thursday, March 3, 2011, at 9:19 PM ET Reposted at Request March 3, 2011 Donald W. Light of the University of Medicine and Dentistry…
Contact: Emma Dickinson edickinson@bmj.com 44-020-738-36529 BMJ-British Medical Journal Value of drugs for pre-osteoporosis exaggerated Drugs for pre-osteoporosis: Prevention or disease-mongering? Public release date: 17-Jan-2008 A series of recent scientific publications…
Requested Repost Citation: Sismondo S (2007) Ghost management: How much of the medical literature is shaped behind the scenes by the pharmaceutical industry" PLoS Med 4(9): e286 Drug companies…
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