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Showing posts with label Doctors and Pharmaceutical Companies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doctors and Pharmaceutical Companies. Show all posts
Friday, 18 April 2014

94% of physicians have a financial relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. Could this affect their judgement when prescribing drugs?

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This study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine 2007 Apr 26;356(17):1742-50   Study title and authors: A national s...
Monday, 16 May 2011

How doctors in the US actually get paid more for writing more statin prescriptions

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This post features an article by Catherine Shanahan , a medical Doctor from Kalaheo, Hawaii The following article by Catherine Shanahan de...
Monday, 27 December 2010

Are all the early statin trials a sham?

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This post includes a summary of a paper published in the Journal of Lipid Nutrition Vol. 19 (2010) , No. 1 pp.65-92 Study title and autho...
Friday, 8 October 2010

All pharmaceutical drug promotion should be banned

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Published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Volume 2, Number 2, 75-81, DOI: 10.1007/BF02448846 Banning all drug promotion is the best o...
Friday, 10 September 2010

Harvard Medical School find that doctors increase the prescription of their sponsors drugs by 300%

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Published in Circulation. 2010;121:2228-2234 Controversies in Cardiovascular Medicine. Is There a Role for Industry-Sponsored Education in...
Thursday, 9 September 2010

Only 6% of drug advertising material sent to doctors is supported by evidence

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Published in the BMJ 2004; 328 : 485 27 February 2004) Only 6% of drug advertising material is supported by evidence Annette Tuffs Insti...

GPs decision to initiate a new drug is heavily influenced by ‘who says what’, in particular the pharmaceutical industry

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Published in Family PracticeVolume20, Issue1Pp. 61-68 Influences on GPs’ decision to prescribe new drugs—the importance of who says what ...
Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Doctors prescription habits affected by pharmaceutical representatives

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Published in JAMA. 2000;283:373-380. Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Is a Gift Ever Just a Gift? Ashley Wazana, MD This pa...

Lipitor (a statin), the cholesterol-lowering drug, has become the bestselling pharmaceutical in history. Here's how Pfizer did it

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This post features an article published in Forbes magazine January 6th 2003 and a recipe for lemon and garlic scallops. Pfizer's sale...