How Much? Gilead Will Charge $900 for Sovaldi in India Pharmalot: WSJ By Ed Silverman Aug 7, 2014 India has become the latest country where the Sovaldi hepatitis C treatment will be offered for $900 per patient. The move, which was reported by The Times of India, comes a few weeks after the manufacturer, Gilead […]
You’ll never know more about a disease than with those first cases in medical school. The first autopsy, the first case in the clinic, the first hospitalized patient. It’s all so new and things fall on a mind eager to see the things learned in the basic sciences manifested in a real patient. In those […]
In my last post [the illusion of evidence…], I was playing with the phrases evidence of illusion [looking for signs that a scientific paper has used the the techniques of presentation to obscure rather than clarify data] and the illusion of evidence [valuing the mathematical/statistical results of Randomized Clinical Trials over all other sources of […]
One could see Matter‘s pairing of The Best-Selling, Billion-Dollar Pills Tested on Homeless People and Why Are Dope-addicted, Disgraced Doctors Running Our Drug Trials? mentioned in my last post [some system…] and by others [like Dr. Howard Brody’s More on Guinea Pigging–The Quality of Pharmaceutical Research] as a walk on the wild side – disgraced […]
The Best-Selling, Billion-Dollar Pills Tested on Homeless People How the destitute and the mentally ill are being used as human lab rats Matter By Carl Elliott June 29, 2014 Why Are Dope-addicted, Disgraced Doctors Running Our Drug Trials? Matter By Peter Aldhous June 29, 2014 I don’t know Peter Aldhous, but most of us do […]
Sovaldi Wins Round Two in the Battle to be the Best-Selling Drug Sovaldi, a Quantum Leap… Backwards to the Days Before Randomized Controlled Trials? Speaking of my last post and capitalism…
Glaxo is Probed by the FBI and the SEC Over China Bribery Scandal Pharmalot: WSJ By Ed Silverman July 28, 2014 The scandal over bribery allegations in China has taken another discouraging turn for GlaxoSmithKline with the news that both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Securities and Exchange Commission are conducting probes of the […]
Court Says Florida’s Ban on Physicians Discussing Gun Ownership Is Legal PsychiatricNews July 29, 2014 A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court’s ruling that Florida’s law limiting what physicians can discuss with their patients regarding gun ownership violates physicians’ First Amendment right to free speech. The lower court had issued an injunction in […]
The only "author’s response" I’ve ever seen where the author of a medical paper admitted culpability in response to criticism was when Dr. Gibbons, Dr. Kupfer, et al apologized for lying about COI after being exposed. And in that apology, they didn’t get around to apologizing to Dr. Carroll for their initial nastygram in response […]
Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian Monk in Moravia whose studies of plant inheritance brought such things into the realm of science. My sister’s blue eyes meant that both of our brown-eyed parents carried recessive blue-eye genes. The postman was out of the picture. Mendel’s schemes of inheritance were like that – very precise statistical predictions […]