corner
Healthy Skepticism
Join us to help reduce harm from misleading health information.
Increase font size   Decrease font size   Print-friendly view   Print
Register Log in

What's New on our website?

This page lists the most recent additions to our website including Announcements, recent issues of our International News and AdWatch and:
> Publications by Healthy Skepticism Members
> Publications mentioning Healthy Skepticism
> Publications from around the world relevant to drug promotion

Announcements

PharmedOut’s annual conference: Missing The Target: When Practitioners Harm More Than Heal

No Free Lunch is merging with Healthy Skepticism

Conference program: Pharma Knows Best? Managing Medical Knowledge

more

Healthy Skepticism Soapbox

: Open letter to Brown University re journal article misrepresenting efficacy and safety of paroxetine

April 2011: Dispute re Ghostwriting

February 2010: Mother Guilty of Murder—Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Innocent

more

AdWatch

April 2010, USA: Wyeth’s Pristiq® (desvenlafaxine) for major depressive disorder

October 2009, USA: Amylin and Eli Lilly’s Byetta® (exenatide injection) for type 2 diabetes

September 2009, Italy: Lescol (fluvastatin) from Novartis

more

Publications by Healthy Skepticism Members

Recent publications where at least one of the authors is a Healthy Skepticism member.

HSL19675
Hagan K
Ethical fears over Pfizer deal with pharmacists
The Sydney Morning Herald 2011 Oct 20
http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/ethical-fears-over-pfizer-deal-with-pharmacists-20111019-1m817.html

HSL19068
Lacasse JR, Leo J
Knowledge of ghostwriting and financial conflicts-of-interest reduces the perceived credibility of biomedical research
BMC Research Notes 2011 Jan 31; 4:27
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/4/27/abstract

HSL19262
Ramos J
Spotlight on Industry Ties of Health Advocacy Groups
Health Watch 2011 Jan 17
http://healthwatched.org/

HSL19163
Othman N, Vitry AI, Roughead EE, Ismail SB, Omar K
Medicines information provided by pharmaceutical representatives: a com parative study in Australia and Malaysia.
BMC Public Health 2010 Nov 30; 10:(1):743
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/743

HSL18773
Spurling GK, Mansfield PR, Montgomery BD, Lexchin J, Doust J, Othman N, Vitry AI
Information from Pharmaceutical Companies and the Quality, Quantity, and Cost of Physicians' Prescribing: A Systematic Review
PLoS Med 2010 Oct 19; 7:(10):
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000352

More

Publications mentioning Healthy Skepticism

Recent publications mentioning Healthy Skepticism written by non-members.

HSL20258
Luthra S
U. forgoes action against prof after study fraud
The Brown Daily Herald 2012 Sep 14
http://www.browndailyherald.com/u-forgoes-action-against-prof-after-study-fraud-1.2762909#.UFrj5I51A21

HSL18774
Henry D
Doctors and Drug Companies: Still Cozy after All These Years
PLoS Med 2010 Nov 2;
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000359

HSL18819
Blackwell T
Blackwell on Health: Is Pharma influencing doctors’ prescriptions?
National Post 2010 Nov 1
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/11/01/pharmas-influence-on-doctor-prescribing/#ixzz14vJh3YHQ

HSL18849
Drummond K
Report: Drug Company Money Affects Doctors' Prescriptions
AOL News 2010 Oct 24
http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/report-drug-company-cash-affects-doctors-prescriptions/19681712

HSL18756
Study finds doctors not immune to pharmaceutical promotion
YFile 2010 Oct 21
http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=15726

More

Publications relevant to drug promotion: published in the last 30 days

See other items below (eg. news articles).

- Scholarly journal articles

- Other items

 

  Healthy Skepticism on RSS   Healthy Skepticism on Facebook   Healthy Skepticism on Twitter

Please
Click to Register

(read more)

then
Click to Log in
for free access to more features of this website.

Forgot your username or password?

You are invited to
apply for membership
of Healthy Skepticism,
if you support our aims.

Pay a subscription

Support our work with a donation

Buy Healthy Skepticism T Shirts


If there is something you don't like, please tell us. If you like our work, please tell others.