What seems like very good news for those of us concerned about the too-cozy relationship between Big Pharma and our physicians is being viewed with alarm by the drug industry-funded website Policy & Medicine, whose motto is “Supporting Innovation Through Collaboration”.
This is a CorporateSpeak tagline that’s roughly translated as:
“We Put Doctors On Our Payroll So They’ll Flog Our Drugs For Us”
According to Policy & Medicine, a recent U.S. study is “troubling” for both patients and physicians. Oddly enough, as a heart attack survivor and consumer of a fistful of cardiac meds every morning, I am not remotely “troubled” by this study’s results. In fact, I’m considerably cheered up. Here’s why: Continue reading
An American jury this month awarded $15 million to an Oklahoma City physician who suffered 
And it’s about time. The Food & Drug Administration in the U.S. is looking for tattle-tales who are fed up with aggressive prescription drug advertising and promotion practices that skate around the truth. For the sake of clarity, let’s call this “lying”. The FDA’s new and long overdue
Forget ancient Greek mythology. There is no shortage of modern myths making the rounds. For example, there are lots of wealthy Nigerians who need your help transferring money between accounts, and of course Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. In the environmental movement, it can be especially hard to tell myth from fact, to ascertain the difference between corporate shills who are skilled in the new art of greenwashing - and those credible sources who can be trusted to actually give us the capital-T Truth.
