Tag: Corruption

Blog Posts (7)

April 25, 2013

FDA Device Will Screen For Fake Medicines Overseas

[NBC News] WASHINGTON – U.S. health officials  are making a high-tech screening device available to African authorities to help  spot counterfeit malaria pills in hopes that the technology may eventually be  used to combat the fake drug trade ...
April 2, 2013

Sugar industry’s secret documents echo tobacco tactics

Sugar Association’s intent to use science to defeat critics uncovered by dentist [CBC News] When Cristin Couzens went on the hunt for evidence that Big Sugar had manipulated public opinion, she had no idea what she was doing. She was a dentist, ...
February 7, 2013

What the Sunshine Act Means for Health Care Transparency

[The Atlantic] Curious whether a prescription or medical device your doctor is recommending comes from a manufacturer who has been paying your doctor? Good news, then: The federal government has finally developed a plan for how the Physician Payments S...
February 7, 2013

What the Sunshine Act Means for Health Care Transparency

[The Atlantic] Curious whether a prescription or medical device your doctor is recommending comes from a manufacturer who has been paying your doctor? Good news, then: The federal government has finally developed a plan for how the Physician Payments S...
February 1, 2013

PR Professionals Are Not ‘Yes Men’ When Pressured to Be Unethical, Study Finds

[Science Daily] Public relations professionals who have provided ethics counsel to senior management are at least as fervent about serving the public interest — sometimes even more so — as they are about their duty to their organizations, a...
February 1, 2013

Men More Likely Than Women to Commit Scientific Fraud

[Science Daily] Male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs across the career spectrum, from trainees to senior faculty. The analysis of professional misconduct was co-led by a researcher at Albert Einstein Co...
January 14, 2013

Mass donor organ fraud shakes Germany

[The Guardian] German medical authorities are calling for an extensive overhaul of the country’s organ transplant programme after transplant centres across Germany were placed under criminal investigation over allegations that they had systematic...