The contradictions of our pill-popping ways…
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 …
