The contradictions of our pill-popping ways…
Posted in Medication Nation on 19 March 2010
EXPERTS SAY A $75 MILLION pharmaceutical bounty stolen from an Eli Lilly and Company warehouse last weekend are more likely to make their way to Internet pharmacies or overseas black markets than to U.S. chain pharmacies, which keep close tabs on their supply chains …
Posted in Medication Nation on 18 March 2010
IN AN Ocean’s Thirteen–STYLE heist at an Eli Lilly and Company distribution center in Enfield, Conn., thieves made off with $75 million of pharmaceuticals over the weekend. Braving a raging storm, the perps scaled a brick wall, cut a hole in the warehouse ceiling, rappelled inside, disabled an alarm, and spent at least an hour loading pallets of drugs into a vehicle at a loading dock. This latest in a rising wave of warehouse burglaries, experts say, is the biggest in drug industry history …
Posted in Medication Nation on 3 February 2009
IN THE PREVIOUS POST, I shared my fears of Big Pharma’s Big Contribution to the Eastern Garbage Patch resulting in a zillions-strong proliferation of health-destroying nurdles. Now, in the interest of not letting my imagination run away with you too, I’d like to give my nightmare scenario a bit more context …
Posted in Medication Nation on 27 January 2009
WHAT ARE THE DRUG companies that signed on to the new PhRMA Code doing with all the branded gifts that didn’t get bestowed before January 2009? Are pens, flashlights, and calculators being dumped into landfills and making their way to the Eastern Garbage Patch? Or was that just my bad dream …
Posted in Medication Nation on 26 January 2009
MERCK, PFIZER, ELI LILLY, and over 30 of their cohorts rang in the New Year with a pledge to stop plying physicians with the five-star meals, expense-paid trips, and scores of logo-emblazoned freebies that critics have long argued have a subliminal — if not a tit-for-tat — influence on prescribing practices.
But don’t take Pharma’s willingness to forego this age-old practice as an admission that …
Posted in Medication Nation on 19 January 2009
I WAS GOING to post something, but …
Posted in Medication Nation on 2 December 2008
ON A RECENT trip through JFK, I happened upon Harmony Pharmacy & Health Center in JetBlue’s shiny new Terminal 5. The pharmacist was on-duty at 8 p.m., ready to restore harmony to harried holiday travelers — although, none seemed to be seeking it from him …
