Posts tagged doctors

• It Just Gets Worse – Merck Made Hit List of Doctors Who Criticized Vioxx

  Mike Ferrara | April 03, 2009 11:06 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  According to an email passed back and forth between the staff of drug giant Merck, the company created a hit list of doctors who needed to be “neutralized” and...

• Massachusetts Bans Gifts from Drug & Device Companies to Doctors

  Mike Ferrara | March 13, 2009 7:19 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Yesterday, only a few days after Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote to Pfizer demanding disclosure of all payments to Harvard University doctors, Massachusetts officials approved strict...

• The Third Leading Cause of Death is…Doctors?

  Mike Ferrara | March 28, 2012 4:32 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  That’s right…research is showing that doctors in America kill roughly 225,000 people every year. This makes doctors the third leading cause of death after heart disease and...

• Say No to Tort Reform; Yes to Reducing Medical Errors

  Mike Ferrara | September 13, 2009 10:14 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Almost everyone can agree that lower costs are among the most needed reforms in our health care system. Tort reform will not lead to lower costs. The facts show that malpractice suits and...

• “Defensive Medicine” Makes Dollars, but No Sense.

  Mike Ferrara | September 11, 2009 10:22 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The logic of all the “defensive medicine” talk doesn’t add up. Doctors all around the country insist that they often perform unnecessary tests and procedures to avoid...

• Big Pharma Agrees to End Freebies to Doctors - Is it Enough?

  Mike Ferrara | January 08, 2009 11:44 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Starting January 1, about 40 drug maker giants, including Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer, agreed to voluntarily stop giving out cute signature gifts, such as coffee mugs, pens,...

• Does Your Doctor Get Big Bucks from Big Pharma?

  Mike Ferrara | October 27, 2010 2:51 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Earlier this year, a new federal law was passed requiring doctor gifts from drug and medical device companies to be published in an online database that will be freely accessible...

• Sen. Grassley Demands Pfizer Disclose Payments and Perks to Harvard Docs.

  Mike Ferrara | March 04, 2009 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On behalf of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, who controls funding for Medicare and Medicaid, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote a letter to drug giant Pfizer yesterday...

• Finally! Doctor Pay-Offs by Drug Companies to be Disclosed by Cleveland Clinic

  Camryn Hansen | December 05, 2008 12:02 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This week, top medical research center The Cleveland Clinic will announce its launch of a program to publicly report the various business dealings that each of its 1,800 staff doctors and...