by Alison Bass | Sep 14, 2011 | health care costs, media coverage, pharmaceutical industry
Recent media coverage of the heated debate over Texas Governor Rick Perry’s endorsement of mandatory HPV vaccinations for school-age girls in his state seems to be missing a few crucial points. First, many of the medical groups who strongly endorsed the vaccine...
by Alison Bass | Aug 3, 2011 | antipsychotic drugs, conflicts of interest, health care costs, university industry collaboration
Medicare and social services for vulnerable Americans are not the only programs on the chopping block with Washington’s deal to raise the debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars in government spending. Looming ahead may be deep cuts in funding for medical and...
by Alison Bass | Jun 27, 2011 | biotech industry, conflicts of interest, drug marketing, health care costs, medical devices, pharmaceutical industry
A page-one story in The Boston Globe today spotlights the Massachusetts biotech industry’s effort to block a key piece of President Obama’s health care overhaul: the creation of an independent payment advisory board (IPAB) that would make recommendations...
