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Don’t Squeeze the Sharma

By On March 3, 2009 · 4 Comments

I recently became aware of a psychiatrist from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College in London named Tonmoy Sharma, MD, once a prominent academic psychiatrist in England with multiple papers and books who appeared frequently on the BBC. He made hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside consulting and speaking work for drug companies over [...]

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Republicans Try to Block Audacious Move to Inform Healthcare Treatments Based on the Evidence

By On February 16, 2009 · 11 Comments

In a sign of their undying loyalty to drug and device makers the Republicans have declared their opposition to a plan to add a billion dollars to the stimulus package to study the relative cost and effectiveness of different treatments for chronic conditions, a plan which President Obama is expected to sign tomorrow. I simply had to [...]

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Bogus Pimping for Flu Shots

By On February 15, 2009 · 3 Comments

In this week’s bmj there is an article by Thomas Jefferson of the Cochrane Vaccine Institute (“Relation of study quality, concordance, take home message, funding, and impact in studies of influenza vaccines: systematic review“) whom I have often quoted before (“Flu Shots are for Idiots“) regarding the dubious evidence behind policy recommendations [...]

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Pimping for Neurontin

By On January 28, 2009 · 6 Comments

This has been quite a year for disturbing revelations about the corruption of the medical literature by pharmaceutical company interests. I wrote previously about ghost writing by Merck and others, and how papers were produced by drug companies that said “insert author here” and then they went out and shopped around for an author [...]

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