July 2015
Recent Project News
June 4: WSJ Pharmalot: "‘Viagra for Women’ is Recommended by an FDA Panel, With Some Caveats" by Ed Silverman http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2015/06/04/viagra-for-women-is-recommended-by-an-fda-panel-with-some-caveats/
June 4: Bloomberg: "Pharma Execs Don't Know Why Anyone Is Upset by a $94,500 Miracle Cure" by Paul Barrett and Robert Langreth http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-03/specialty-drug-costs-gilead-s-hepatitis-c-cures-spur-backlash
June 8: Washington Post: "I’m a feminist. Here’s why I don’t support the ‘female Viagra.’" by Cindy Pearson http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/08/im-a-feminist-heres-why-i-dont-support-the-female-viagra/
June 9: WSJ Pharmalot: "Drug Makers Price Medicines Unfairly, U.K. Patient Groups Say" by Ed Silverman http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2015/06/09/drug-makers-price-medicines-unfairly-u-k-patient-groups-say/
June 10: New York Times: "Heartburn Drugs Linked to Heart Attacks" by Nicholas Bakalar http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/gastric-reflux-drugs-linked-to-heart-attacks
June 10: BMJ: "Selective clinical trial reporting: betraying trial participants, harming patients" by Sidney M. Wolfe http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2753
June 10: ProPublica: "One Nation, Under Sedation: Medicare Paid for Nearly 40 Million Tranquilizer Prescriptions in 2013" by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones http://www.propublica.org/article/medicare-paid-for-nearly-40-million-tranquilizer-prescriptions-in-2013
June 11: New York Times: "Don’t Weaken the F.D.A.’s Drug Approval Process" by Gregg Gonsalves, Mark Harrington and David A. Kessler http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/dont-weaken-the-fdas-drug-approval-process.html
June 12: Forbes: "FDA: Drug Companies Routinely Hide The Reasons Their Drugs Are Rejected From Investors" by Matthew Herper http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/06/12/fda-drug-companies-routinely-hide-the-reasons-their-drugs-are-rejected-from-investors/
June 12: Washington Post: "Doctors don’t actually know how often you should see them" by Ishani Ganguli http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/12/doctors-dont-actually-know-how-often-you-should-see-them
June 13: New York Times: "Aid to Women, or Bottom Line? Advocates Split on Libido Pill" by Sabrina Tavernise and Andrew Pollack http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/us/aid-to-women-or-bottom-line-advocates-split-on-libido-pill.html
June 15: New York Times: "Science, Now Under Scrutiny Itself" by Benedict Carey http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/science/retractions-coming-out-from-under-science-rug.html
June 17: WSJ Pharmalot: "Pharma Pays Female Docs Less Than Men for Speaking and Research" by Ed Silverman http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2015/06/17/pharma-pays-female-docs-less-than-men-for-speaking-and-research/
June 18: WSJ Pharmalot: "Most Americans say Drug Costs are Unreasonable and They Blame Pharma" by Ed Silverman http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2015/06/18/most-americans-say-drug-costs-are-unreasonable-and-they-blame-pharma/
June 22: Boston Globe: "Opioid task force says more beds, treatment options needed" By Felice J. Freyer http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/06/22/baker-release-findings-state-opioid-crisis/yP4me9jqa4flJSabUDiNuJ/story.html
June 22: New York Times: "Blood Pressure, the Mystery Number" by Gina Kolata http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/health/blood-pressure-the-mystery-number.html
June 22: NPR: "To Ease Pain, Reach For Your Playlist" by Patty Neighmond http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/06/22/415048075/to-ease-pain-reach-for-your-playlist-instead-of-popping-a-pill
June 22: Wall Street Journal: "New Formula Aims to Help Weigh Value of Cancer Treatments" by Ron Winslow http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-formula-aims-to-help-weigh-value-of-cancer-treatments-1435011580
June 23: Connecticut Health I-Team: "High-Prescribing Nurse Charged With Accepting Drug Company Kickbacks" by Lisa Chedekel http://c-hit.org/2015/06/23/high-prescribing-nurse-charged-with-accepting-drug-company-kickbacks/
June 23: BMJ: "How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it" by Ben Goldacre and Carl Heneghan http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h3397
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