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Pharma Insider II
Opposition research
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Pharma Insider I
Off-label promotion under the radar
(read transcript)

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The Art of Medical Writing
Pharma's anonymous writers

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Drug Reps Talk Shop II
Drug reps continue their chat

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Drug Reps Talk Shop I Selling drugs to docs

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Director of PharmedOut Explains the Project

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Zyprexa Drug Rep Tells All Shahram Ahari describes how he sold the drug

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News

FDA to Advertise Fake Blood Pressure Pill
Will study consumer responses to safety warnings Pharmalot

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New GAO Report
Prescription Drugs: FDA’s Oversight of the Promotion of Drugs for Off-Label Uses GAO

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Teaching Doctors—or Selling to Them?
Industry backs away from CME Businessweek

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Fatal Medication Errors at Home Rise Sharply
More mixed-drug overdoses WSJ

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Why Not the Best?
U.S. Health System Scores 65 out of 100 The Commonwealth Fund (article in WP)

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A Call for a Warning System on Artificial Joints
National registry needed NYT

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Drugmaker Sponsors Journalism Group Seminar
Journalists get lunch from Novo and Lilly Pharmalot

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Are Vaccine Defenders For Sale?
COIs in vaccine experts Pharmalot

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FDA Staffers Start Dissident Website
Concerns about drug safety expressed Thoreau-FDA

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Medicare Part D Was A ‘Windfall’ For Pharma
Shift from Medicaid jacks drug prices 30% Pharmalot

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The Real War on Drugs
Compared to U.K., Americans pay double for drugs Pharmagossip

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Commentary

Deceptive Market Practices in the Marketplace of Ideas
“Think tanks” distorting health care debate Bioethics Forum

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