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PharmedOut Publications and Other Materials
Articles
Following the Script: How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors
Public Library of Science
Psychological techniques reps use to sell drugs
Doctors Must Not be Lapdogs to Drug Firms
British Medical Journal
Drug reps stomp out of a talk about industry influence
“This May Sting a Bit”: Cutting CME’s Ties to Pharma
Virtual Mentor
CME should go pharma-free
PLoS Medicine
Taking ads for luxury goods would be less compromising to medical journals than accepting only drug ads
Gynecologists and Estrogen: An Affair of the Heart
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Ob-gyns believe in HT despite evidence
Other Materials
How to Hold Pharma-free Meetings (pdf)Fast Facts on Generics (pdf)
Drug Approval in the US: How Drugs get to Market (CME)
Generic Drugs: Prescribing Sensibly (CME)
The Physician-Pharma Relationship (powerpoint)
Bring Your Own Lunch (BYOL) Sandwich Guide (pdf)
Other Publications
Smoke and Mirrors
Bioethics Forum
Meds in Kids
Women's Health Activist
Women's Health Activist
Classic Drugs Under Attack
Bioethics Forum
Women’s Health Activist
Cervical Cancer Vaccines and Industry Influence
Bioethics Forum
The Waiting Room: Pharma's Latest Lair
Bioethics Forum
The Dog Ate My Disclosure
Bioethics Forum
Hold the Hype on HPV
Women's Health Activist
Over-the-Counter Sales of Medical Records
Women's Health Activist
Cervical Cancer Vaccines in Context
Women's Health Activist
Less Hormone Therapy, Less Breast Cancer
Women's Health Activist
Big Pharma Wants to Know All About You
Women's Health Activist
A Bone to Pick with Bone Drugs
Women's Health Activist
Waiting Room Activism
Women's Health Activist
Why Race-Based Medicine is a Bad Idea
Women's Health Activist
Just Say No to New Drugs
Women's Health Activist
Our Videos
Pharma Insider II
Opposition research
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Pharma Insider I
Off-label promotion under the radar
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The Art of Medical Writing
Pharma's anonymous writers
Drug Reps Talk Shop II
Drug reps continue their chat
Drug Reps Talk Shop I Selling drugs to docs
Director of PharmedOut Explains the Project
Zyprexa Drug Rep Tells All Shahram Ahari describes how he sold the drug
News
No More Free Rx Samples
Carolinas HealthCare System leads the way Carolina Observer
Glaxo 'Downplayed' Warning
Abacavir doubles MI risk Independent
Physician, Reveal Thyself
Heart stent studies don't disclose funding Businessweek (PLoS One study)
Protecting Human Subjects
US clinical trials no longer required Center for Science in the Public
FDA Slow To Issue DTCA Warnings
Ads discontinued before letters received Pharmalot (read GAO report)
Celebrex Doesn't Prevent Memory Loss
Nor does naproxen Bloomberg (Archives of Neurology study)
Pfizer to Disclose Grants
With Lilly, supports revised Sunshine Act Pharmatimes
Migraine Medicines Problematic
Associated with serotonin syndrome Bloomberg (NEJM study)
Stealth Marketers
Shilling for pharma on NPR Slate
Psychiatry Handbook Linked to Drug Industry
COIs in over half of new working group members NYT (read Center for Science in the Public Interest article)
Legislators: Glaxo Letter on Gift Ban May Backfire
Does MA have a “strong anti-biopharmaceutical streak?” Boston Herald (read additional article)
Glaxo Tries to Corner Weight Loss Market
Tells FDA to deny dietary supplement claims Pharmalot
Commentary
Prescription Tracking and Public Health
AMA’s PDRP inadequate JGIM
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