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How to Charge 40 Billion Dollars for Nothing
In 2002, Merck Labs received FDA approval for the use of their soon-to–be blockbuster drug; a drug that has since given Merck more than $40,000,000,000 (40 billion dollars) in sales. But with all the...
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What Televangelists & Alternative Medicine Proponents Have in Common
To the skeptical, Andrew Weil, Mehmet Oz, Joe Mercola, and Deepak Chopra, have an unsavory commonality with people like Jimmy Swaggart, Benny Hinn, and “The Reverend” Jim Bakker. They all offer tales...
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Throwing Away Billions: Our Broken Healthcare
If you blame Obamacare for the awful defects in our healthcare system, you are indeed naïve, since any cost-effectiveness or fairness in our system disintegrated long before Barack Obama, or even...
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Brisdelle: New Menopause Drug or Alchemy?
In 2013, the FDA finally approved a drug without estrogen for the treatment of menopausal symptoms. When compared to placebo, a study shows that Brisdelle significantly diminished the number of hot...
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An Emergency Room Visit: A Game of Chance
Unfortunately, your first encounter with a hospital is very often in the emergency department or, as it is more familiarly known, the emergency room. You may have a broken arm or a bad cut, you may...
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A Dark Cloud Still Lingers Over Sunshine Act
George Orwell, the inventor of the Ministry of Truth, could not have coined a more biting and sarcastic title than the Sunshine Act. With the advance of the Affordable Care Act the Physician Payments...
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Cheating the Gold Standard in Drug Trials
Randomized control trials (RCT) are complex and very expensive studies required by regulatory agencies, in this case the FDA, before a prescription drug is allowed to be touted for its benefits and...
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A Visit to the Emergency Room – $$$
Often at lunch I listen to personal stories from other physicians. On occasion that gives me the impetus to go off and write about it. The following is about an unsuccessful attempt by a doctor and his...
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Selling Ranexa: A Prescription for Profiteering?
This is not an attempt to place blame nor to suggest that some of the physicians I allude to have done anything illegal. It is my review and inside story of how Pharma, sometimes using manipulation,...
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The Miracle Money Making Vest
For the past fifteen years Zoll Medical has done a remarkable job selling their wearable defibrillator and has certainly created a perfect name for it: The LifeVest. Too many local news agencies, who...
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