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As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.
For years, the nation's largest drug and medical device manufacturers have courted doctors with consulting fees, free trips to exotic locales and sponsoring the educational conferences that physicians attend.
Nearly two-thirds of academic leaders surveyed at U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals have financial ties to industry, illustrating how pervasive these relationships have become, researchers say.
Brown Win Boosts Big PharmaSuch is the nature of markets that the victory of a Massachusetts politician to the United States Senate has given a boost to pharmaceutical stocks across the Atlantic.
The 'false' pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on scare over swine flu, claims European health chiefThe swine flu outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed.
After Ripping Clinton And McCain During Campaign Obama Now Embraces Their PoliciesIn an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, President Barack Obama challenged his critics to identify any "gap" between what he campaigned on last year and the health care legislation Congress is on the verge of passing.
"Democratic leaders worked for days to hammer out a deal with Nelson, and finally reached a tentative agreement late Friday night with him on abortion coverage provisions that had proven the major stumbling block to winning his support.
Give credit where credit is due. O'Reilly's show has degenerated into repetitive nonsense of political tomfoolery and worse.
A prescription for snoopingReporting from Washington - When your doctor writes you a prescription, that's just between you, your doctor and maybe your health insurance company -- right?
How We Pay for Big Pharma's Malpractice The main reason we can't get a health reform bill enacted is because the pharmaceutical and insurance industries aren't happy with their piece of the action.
CEOs Tally Health-Bill Score The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especially those that cater to the individual market -- look like they are in for a tougher time.
(Let's Hope) We're Not Gonna Take It AnymoreThere's no arguing that congressional Democrats are smart not to put their healthcare bills online — After all, more than anyone else, they know that if people learn about everything in those abominations, they might get so riled up as to make last summer's town halls look …
To Vaccinate or Not? Some Parents Wary on H1N1 SafetyMary Peterson of Des Moines, Washington, doesn't believe the vaccine for the novel H1N1 flu has been studied enough to get it for herself and her daughters, who are 1 and 3 years old. Mary Peterson's daughters, 3 and 1, will not be getting the new vaccine, she said.
Integrity--as defined by PfizerOops, They Did It Again (& we ain't talkin' about Brittany)
Why I Never Get Flu ShotsDo you want any of the following typical vaccine constituents injected into YOUR bloodstream?
Drug industry clout reflected in Senate voteSenators rebuffed an attempt to squeeze more money from the drug industry Thursday after two Democrats warned it would undermine the fragile political coalition pushing a sweeping health care overhaul.
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
The Economist: Government Imposed Price Caps on American Drug Companies Would Not Stifle InnovationTHE number of Americans denouncing their president's plans for health-care reform as unvarnished socialism would presumably rise dramatically if Barack Obama decided to institute price controls for drugs.
Mayor Bloomberg: Pharmaceutical Companies, CEOs Don't Make Much MoneyNEW YORK — Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical companies and their chief executives on Friday, declaring that they "don't make a lot of money" and shouldn't be scapegoats in the health care debate.
Drug Companies Get Rich By "Creating Illnesses", then Selling their Drugs as the "Cure""Some years ago, a friend told me that he had been diagnosed with a major depressive disorder and that his psychiatrist had given him a prescription for Forest Laboratories' popular SSRI antidepressant Celexa (chemical name, citalopram hydrobromide; $1.5 billion in sales in 200 …
Big Business Goes Big for Health Care ReformThat manipulation should disturb us. But contrary to Rich, it is not the work of "corporatists" who have sprung up to attack progressive reforms proposed by Obama and the Democratic majority.
Obama gives powerful drug lobby a seat at healthcare tableAs a candidate for president, Barack Obama lambasted drug companies and the influence they wielded in Washington.
PROMISES, PROMISES: Do Obama deals break pledge?WASHINGTON (AP) - In cutting deals with hospitals and drug makers, President Barack Obama is giving a private inside track to special interests that's at odds with his promise to make policy in the open.
It's happening. The debate over health care reform is degenerating into name-calling and sloganeering. It happens any time this or any other complex issue comes to the fore.
Doctors Offered Cruise to Prescribe SigmaA DRUG company is offering doctors who prescribe its medicines a 10-day Mediterranean cruise in a move that could breach a code of conduct.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: We Must Stop the Rampant Fraud in the Health Care IndustrySenator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, is a member of the Senate Health committee, one of two Senate panels dealing with health care. His access to reports on the industry outweigh any other links to documentation of the fraud he says has been perpetrated.
Details sparse in $80B drug proposalPresident Barack Obama capitalized Monday on a bit of good news after a tough week for health care reform, trumpeting an $80 billion deal with the pharmaceutical industry to cut drug costs as a "significant breakthrough" in his bid to pass an overhaul bill.
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