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Pfizer employee to new colleagues: Buckle up
Pfizer employee to new colleagues: Buckle upPharma giant Pfizer got bigger on Monday, purchasing Wyeth Pharamceuticals for $65 billion in one of the few big business moves to get funding lately. This...
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Angell on drug money: Just say No
Angell on drug money: Just say NoMarcia Angell makes it plain:The fact that drug companies pay prescribers to be "educated" underscores the true nature of the transaction. Students generally pay...
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Sleepwalking party invitations and other delights
Sleepwalking party invitations and other delightsA roundup of wonderful stuff I won't get to. Then again, many of these need no help:"Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4...
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Seroquel, preemption, prosecution, sex - Is the tide turning?
Seroquel, preemption, prosecution, sex - Is the tide turning?I'm having difficulty even reading, much less posting about, the river of stories about pharma and device industries, FDA regs, conflicts of...
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Derek Lowe (In The Pipeline) on ghostwriting and a real drug industry project...
Derek Lowe (In The Pipeline) on ghostwriting and a real drug industry project meetingI know that we have been very fortunate to attract a few new readers over the last year or so. For those, and as a...
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Sell the drugs, they pay you. Criticize the drugs, they sue you.
Sell the drugs, they pay you. Criticize the drugs, they sue you. via Wall Street Journal Health Blog:For a while now, the FDA and other regulators have been looking at safety risks associated with a...
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The Rise Of Marketing-Based Medicine (via Pharmalot)
The Rise Of Marketing-Based Medicine (via Pharmalot)The Rise Of Marketing-Based Medicine64 CommentsBy Ed Silverman // January 28th, 2010 // 7:57 amYou've heard of evidence-based medicine. Well, a new...
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Big Pharma needs more money! (Wait a minute....does not compute...)
Big Pharma needs more money! (Wait a minute....does not compute...)In the Feb 26 issue of Science, the Chief Patent Counsel for GlaxoSmithKline has written a "Policy Forum" article outlining the...
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Latisse!
Latisse!The existence of the drug Latisse is clearly a harbinger of the end of modern civilization, in more ways than one, but it is also intensely fascinating and creepy. When I first heard of it,...
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The Speed of MoneyWow! Either it's an odd coincidence, or the Latisse marketers are highly vigilant monetizers, because in less than 24 hours after I posted yesterday's rambling little piece about the...
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