Transparency International Reports on Massive Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Sector - Media Hardly Notices

Health Care Corruption as a Taboo Topic Transparency International (TI) defines corruption as Abuse of entrusted power for private gain In ...

What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed

What you see if often not what you get.   Nine years ago, three top executives of Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of ...

Will There Ever Be Enough Straws to Break Corporate Health Care Managers' Impunity's Back? - Novartis Settles Yet Again, This Time for Bribing Doctors

Umpteenth verse, same as the first... As just reported by Bloomberg , Novartis AG said it agreed to pay $25 million to settle a U.S. Securi...

Trumped Up "Nutritional" Products - A Cautionary Tale of Immediate Relevance

On Health Care Renewal , we frequently discuss deceptive marketing schemes designed to sell tests and treatments whose benefits for patien...

How Managerialsm/ Generic Management Damaged the American Red Cross

The American Red Cross is a storied non-profit organization.  It provides disaster relief, provides a major part of the US blood supply, and...

Pfizer's Latest International Pfiascos - Charges of Anti-Competitive Practices, Inflated Prices, Deception and Secrecy

Many big health care organizations seem to just be unable to keep out of trouble, and the bigger they are, the more kinds of trouble.  Pfize...