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- Recorded webcast
- Speaker’s presentation
- Research tips for reporters
- Katherine Eban on Twitter
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- Bottle of Lies
- New York Times book review
- AHCJ core topic: Insurance
June 19, noon ET
Investigative journalist Katherine Eban explains how health care journalists can cover the fraud she uncovered in the generic drug business for her new book, “Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom.”
Her work reveals how rampant fraud among generic drug manufacturers and lax FDA oversight put patients’ health at risk. In the United States, 90% of spending for all pharmaceuticals goes for generic drugs because health insurers limit choice by steering patients to these medications, which are cheaper than brand-name drugs.
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Katherine Eban, investigative journalist and contributor to Fortune
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Moderator: Joseph Burns, AHCJ core topic leader/insurance
Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist, contributor to Fortune magazine, and an Andrew Carnegie fellow. Her articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking, and coercive interrogations by the CIA, have won international attention and numerous awards. She has also written for Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Self, The Nation, and the New York Observer, among other publications. Her first book, Dangerous Doses: a True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters and the Contamination of America’s Drug Supply, was named one of the Best Books of 2005 by Kirkus Reviews and was a Barnes&Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.
