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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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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Will There Ever Be Enough Straws to Break Corporate Health Care Managers' Impunity's Back? - Novartis Settles Yet Again, This Time for Bribing Doctors

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Will There Ever Be Enough Straws to Break Corporate Health Care Managers' Impunity's Back? - Novartis Settles Yet Again, This Time for Bribing Doctors

Unknown 3/25/2016 Komentar

Umpteenth verse, same as the first...As just reported by Bloomberg,Novartis AG said it agreed to pay $25 million to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case that claimed the Swiss drugmaker paid bribes to health...

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Trumped Up "Nutritional" Products - A Cautionary Tale of Immediate Relevance

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Trumped Up "Nutritional" Products - A Cautionary Tale of Immediate Relevance

Unknown 3/04/2016 Komentar

On Health Care Renewal, we frequently discuss deceptive marketing schemes designed to sell tests and treatments whose benefits for patients do not clearly outweigh their harms, and sometimes which are useless or dangerous. ...

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It Has Come to This? - Donald Trump's "Truly Absurd," "Word Salad," "Gibberish" Health Care Policy

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It Has Come to This? - Donald Trump's "Truly Absurd," "Word Salad," "Gibberish" Health Care Policy

Unknown 2/28/2016 Komentar

Health Care Renewal is officially non-partisan.  We do not endorse candidates for office, or political parties.  That does not prevent us from commenting on policy issues, and on pronouncements and actions by politicians...

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Ho-hum, Another Month, Another Set of Multi-Million Dollar Settlements by Health Care Corporations Acting Badly

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Ho-hum, Another Month, Another Set of Multi-Million Dollar Settlements by Health Care Corporations Acting Badly

Unknown 2/21/2016 Komentar

Amazingly, with a US presidential election looming, there is finally some public discussion here of the impunity of top corporate executives.  Columnist Gretcher Moregenson wrote on February 6, 2016 in the New York...

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