Health Science

Health care corruption , remains a largely taboo topic, especially when it occurs in developed countries like the US.  Searching PubMed or m...

Once again, here is a roundup of cases showing big multi-national pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are up to their usual tricks. P...

The Latest Settlement Biotechnology giant Amgen has just reached another settlement of allegations that it unfairly, deceptively or misleadi...

At my Oct. 2, 2014 post "Did Electronic Medical Record-mediated problems contribute to or cause the current Dallas Ebola scare?" ...

An anonymous commenter to my blog post about the USA Today article on bad health IT ( http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/02/former-onc-direc...

The recent New York Times   piece on the behavior of (mainly for-profit, but by extension...) US organizations' boards of directors, goe...

The 2015 PharmedOut.org meeting is now in the history books.  It featured many presentations and considerable formal and informal discussion...

The theme of non-profit hospital CEO as Scrooge seems to be persisting in the media even beyond the holiday season.  (Our last post on thi...

We are just into January and have our first legal settlement by a major health care corporation of charges of giving physicians kickbacks t...

The CEO of giant hospital system UPMC, Mr Jeffrey Romoff, has been one of the best compensated CEOs of ostensibly non-profit hospital system...