A Tenet of Impunity - Tenet Settles Kickback Allegations for $514 Million, No Individual Suffers Any Negative Consequences

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A Tenet of Impunity - Tenet Settles Kickback Allegations for $514 Million, No Individual Suffers Any Negative Consequences

Unknown 8/05/2016 Komentar

Tramp, tramp, tramp.  The march of legal settlements continues.  The latest entry is a corporation that has had a 20 plus year history of legal misadventures, allegations of unethical behavior, and actual crimes. ...

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Bad Apple or Bad Orchard? - A Narrative of Alleged Individual Research Misconduct that Sidestepped the Pharmaceutical Corporate Context

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Bad Apple or Bad Orchard? - A Narrative of Alleged Individual Research Misconduct that Sidestepped the Pharmaceutical Corporate Context

Unknown 7/08/2016 Komentar

Tales of medical research misconduct seem increasingly prevalent in the media, and are getting increasing attention.    They often may present a simple narrative, like this recent story in the New York Times,...

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

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

Unknown 6/08/2016 Komentar

Health Care Corruption as a Taboo Topic Transparency International (TI) defines corruption asAbuse of entrusted power for private gainIn 2006, TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption...

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New Jersey Confidential: the Almost Secret Membership of the RWJ Barnabas Health Board

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New Jersey Confidential: the Almost Secret Membership of the RWJ Barnabas Health Board

Unknown 5/15/2016 Komentar

A Hospital System Tries to Hide its Board of Trustees The US Internal Revenue Service mandates disclosure of the membership of boards of trustees of non-profit corporations.  Nonetheless, as reported by New Brunswick...

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What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed

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What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed

Unknown 3/31/2016 Komentar

What you see if often not what you get.   Nine years ago, three top executives of Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of "misbranding" Oxycontin.  The case appeared to be a landmark.  In previous...

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A Small Challenge to Impunity - Lawsuit Against Former Synthes CEO Proceeds

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A Small Challenge to Impunity - Lawsuit Against Former Synthes CEO Proceeds

Unknown 12/11/2015 Komentar

Numerous allegations of bad behavior by big health care organizations, some apparently causing patient harm, have resulted in legal settlements, sometimes of criminal charges.  Yet rarely do the individuals who apparently...

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Round and Round It Goes - Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services Joins Humacyte Board

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Round and Round It Goes - Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services Joins Humacyte Board

Unknown 9/04/2015 Komentar

The latest example of the health care revolving door was made barely public just before the US Labor Day holiday.  Per the Triangle Business Journal,Humacyte Inc., a biotechnology company based in Research Triangle...

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Northwestern Upholds its "Brand," Never Mind Free Speech and Academic Freedom

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Northwestern Upholds its "Brand," Never Mind Free Speech and Academic Freedom

Unknown 9/03/2015 Komentar

Threats to free speech and academic freedom in health care were a major concern when we started Health Care Renewal.  Such threats may now be less anechoic, but do not seem to have diminished.Censorship and the Resignation...

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