SEPTEMBER 2009

• Doctors on the take: how to read the fine print in medical research articles
• What if everybody starting telling the truth about medical ghostwriting?
• Medical ghostwriting: if you’re not alarmed, you’re not paying attention
• How to use the media to push your drugs
• Partners in slime: why you should be alarmed about medical ghostwriting
• Horse thieving, train robbing, and medical ghostwriting
• Even our kitties can’t believe everything they read
• What drug reps wrote on their BlackBerries
• How to translate Big Pharma PR-Speak into English
• Stock market tip: how to profit from swine flu
• Medical journal editor resorts to sleuthing to catch ghostwriters
• 50-100% of medical journal articles on drugs paid for by Big Pharma?
• “Sleazy example” of drug company reminder ad on Twitter
• Ghostwriting and “Guest Authorship” – twins separated at birth?
• GlaxoSmithKline hid Paxil’s birth defect warnings for decades
• Is Big Pharma onboard the Titanic?
• Merck paying off 3,100 families affected by Vioxx deaths
• Big Pharma = Big Salaries

OCTOBER 2009

• Bingo Fun with Pharmaceutical Ads: What can they teach us about marketing
• Pfizer paid $4,000 per day in speaking fees to helicopter-flying doc
• Dannon slammed with $35 million settlement over Acitivia false advertising
• All bark, no bite: new Big Pharma ethics guidelines lack teeth
• Is your surgeon able to understand simple instructions?
• Drug rep confidential
• How hockey goons are the same as “puzzled” medical journal editors
• Columbia drug study scandal
• PANEXA: ask your doctor if you need it
• Bayer sued for false prostate cancer prevention claims in multi-vitamins
• A short history of medicine
• Drug marketing by the numbers
• Dr. Harriet Hall explains Tooth Fairy Science
• A mere $2.3. billion later…
• The Lucky Stockbroker Syndrome and other ways to skew research

NOVEMBER 2009

• Radiation + asbestos = good.  Abortion + vaccines = bad.
• Copper magnetic bracelets are ineffective against pain
• Whistleblower: “I was fired for fighting hospital’s link with Medtronic”
• How a new drug gets approved
• Former NEJM Editor: “No longer possible to believe most medical research published.”
• Nice work if you can get it: same speech, week in, week out – at $1,500 a pop
• Warning: clinical trials funded by drug companies may be less truthful than they appear
• New ‘Desire Drug’ claims that sex really IS all in her head
• Doctor’s ‘kiss & tell’ tale: My one-year career as a Drug Rep
• Marketing that kills babies: Why I support the Nestlé boycott
• The Drug Pushers
• Two nurses fired for reporting doctor’s inappropriate actions
• There’s a pill for that!
• Is this a Starbucks or not?

DECEMBER 2009

• “Me-too” drugs that don’t meet any unmet needs
• Do you want to take medicines made in China?
• Pens, pizza, parties: how Big Pharma freebies influence your doctor
• Where there’s smoke, there’s Pfizer
  Not for women’s eyes
• The business of prostate cancer: putting profits before patients
• Miracle medical breakthrough? Not so fast!
• Head to head brawl: should drug companies be trusted to run their own trials?

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