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A Former Rhode Island Legislator Pleads Guilty to Selling His Office to Local Health Care Organizations

Guidant Executives Sued for Securities Fraud

Another Health Care Executive Pleads Guilty

Now Stuck Switches for Guidant

Boston Scientific Settles Case of Defective Stent Systems

An Australian Survey of Threats to Research Integrity

Two Massachusetts Hospitals to Offer Discounts Off "List Prices" for Uninsured Patients

Waxman Summarizes the Marketing of Vioxx

"Crying All the Way to the Bank" Revisited: Pfizer's Trials of Torcetapib-Atorvastatin

Secrecy and Censorship

Tales of Sales Reps

A Cautionary Tale About Health Care IT in the Real World

CIGNA Can't Take a Joke

"We'll Manage It the Way We Damn Well Want"

More Short Circuits for Guidant

"Naturopath" Takes the Fifth

"Slippery As Oiled Pigs"

Michigan Politicians Covet Large Blue Cross Surpluses

Nursing Home Administrator Charged with Patient Neglect

New Book on "Olivieri Affair"

Canadian Health Care A Contradiction in Terms

Dispute at the American Society of Hypertension Over Industry Involvement

Deferred Prosecution for Bristol Myers Squibb for Fraud Charges

A Not-For-Profit Hospital Sues a Former Donor

No Federal Standards for Reporting Flawed Medical Devices

Big Conflicts of Interest Alleged at Small Massachusetts Hospital

Not Very Slick Management: Administrators Alleged to Ignore Surgical Instruments "Disinfected" with Used Hydraulic Fluid

MedRants Blogger's Op-Ed Against Direct to Consumer Drug Advertising

How Johnson & Johnson Marketed Propulsid

The AMA may be "getting it"

Government officials who "get it"

"Scientists Behaving Badly" and "Unreasonable Managerial Demands"

Pfizer Dissident Unplugged

Canadian Ban on Private Health Insurance Struck Down

More Exaggerated Hospital List Prices

Local "Naturopathic Doctor" Shut Down

Allegations That Merck Threatened Researchers Who Expressed Doubts About Vioxx

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Settling Case of Inflated Sales Figures

More on the Alliance Between the University of Pennsylvania and the Tai Sophia Institute

Georgia State Senator, Charged with Defrauding Hospital and Medical School, Convicted

Opinions About the Regulating the Pharmaceutical Industry

Secrecy

New Marketing Campaign "To Build Emotional Ties Between Merck and Consumers"

Marketing Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

Guidant's Short Circuit, Reloaded

CPOE cybernetic miracles not yet achieved

More Accusations of Harsh Bill Collecting Tactics: Intermountain Health Care

Drug Studies Required by FDA Fast Track Process Never Completed

Medical Whistleblowers' Roundtable

More Fall-Out From Start of Congressional Hearings on Not-For-Profit Hospitals