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Pharmaceuticals
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Some fear DSM update opens door for exploitation
On All Things Considered, NPR’s Alix Spiegel looks to the past and future to ferret out the potential drawbacks and…
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BMJ: Wakefield’s vaccine-autism study fraudulent
The Internet and other media are abuzz with the news, published by BMJ yesterday, that the study published in The…
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Taking stock of big pharma in Canada
CBC and Radio-Canada have cooperated to produce a comprehensive look at the nation’s pharmaceutical industry, which centers on Montreal, Canada’s…
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ProPublica finds academic physicians violating schools’ conflict rules
While journalists have been finding innovative ways to use ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database, the database’s founders, Tracy Weber and…
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N.J. taxpayers pay tab on illegal steroids
Without further ado, here are links to the three parts of the enormous (both in length and import) “Strong at…
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N.Y. reporter finds local doctors in ProPublica database
Writing for Gannett’s Binghamton, N.Y., Press & Sun-Bulletin, Julia Hunter localized ProPublica’s investigation of pharmaceutical companies and disciplined doctors by starting…
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Barlett & Steele uncover chaos, peril of global drug industry
In Vanity Fair, Donald Barlett and James Steele have devoted more than 6,000 words to chronicling the gaping holes in…
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Ghostwritten textbook just ‘tip of the iceberg’
The New York Times‘ Duff Wilson has uncovered what he calls the first ghostwritten book. Published in 1999 under the…
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…
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13 years of warnings, FDA inaction behind seizure
U.S. marshals seized a number of drug products from a small New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturer called Tri-Med laboratories earlier this…