conflict of interest

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Doctors Promoting Treatments on Social Media Routinely Fail to Disclose Ties to Drug Makers

Sheila Kaplan | STAT | February 29, 2016

Physicians across the United States routinely offer medical advice on social media — but often fail to mention that they have accepted tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars from the companies that make the prescription drugs they tout. A STAT examination of hundreds of social media accounts shows that health care professionals virtually never note their conflicts of interest, some of them significant, when promoting drugs or medical devices on sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The practice cuts across all specialties...

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Internal Emails Show FDA, Industry Jointly Framed 'Cures' Device Language

Joe Williams | Inside Health Policy | December 10, 2015

FDA and the largest medical device lobbying group worked together to develop proposed legislative language for most of the medical device provisions included in the House-passed 21st Century Cures bill, one of the largest FDA reform bills to pass the House in recent years, and are developing a synchronized regulatory strategy for the Senate version, according to internal emails and documents obtained by Inside Health Policy through the Freedom of Information Act...

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Many Antidepressant Studies Found Tainted by Pharma Company Influence

Roni Jacobson | Scientific American | October 21, 2015

The latest study, published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, which evaluated 185 meta-analyses, found that one third of them were written by pharma industry employees. “We knew that the industry would fund studies to promote its products, but it’s very different to fund meta-analyses,” which “have traditionally been a bulwark of evidence-based medicine,” says John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine and co-author of the study. “It’s really amazing that there is such a massive influx of influence in this field.”

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The Annual Health Benefits Kabuki Dance Has Created the Greatest Heist in American History

Dave Chase | LinkedIn Pulse | October 1, 2016

The data is clear that the middle class is in an economic depression because of looks like a breach of fiduciary duty by their employers. This has created the strangest election in my lifetime -- look no further than 1930s Germany to see the effects of sustained economic duress on a citizenry. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders represent the primal screams of the American middle class that is at least 95% driven by healthcare's unnecessary and easily avoided hyperinflation. It's stupefying how companies that will rigorously check whether there's a receipt for a $58 dinner an employee reported, will blindly squander millions unnecessarily on healthcare.

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Transparency International Reports on Massive Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Sector - Media Hardly Notices

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | June 8, 2016

In 2006, TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption is widespread throughout the world, serious, and causes severe harm to patients and society. "Corruption might mean the difference between life and death for those in need of urgent care. It is invariably the poor in society who are affected most by corruption because they often cannot afford bribes or private health care. But corruption in the richest parts of the world also has its costs"...

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