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PharmedOut
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PharmedOut is a project at Georgetown that advances evidence-based prescribing and provides education about pharmaceutical and medical device marketing practices.
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · 20d
Lydia Greene's moving account of how she became a whistleblower: Confessions of an Advertising Writer: What I Learned From Your Stories—And Mine - Mad In America
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Confessions of an Advertising Writer: What I Learned From Your Stories—And Mine
Apologies won’t undo the harm. What I’ve learned might. The current system will not change unless we organize.
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · 20d
In fact, pharma marketing provides inaccurate information: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28406971/, samples are bad: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36345038/, and even small gifts affect prescribing: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29069085/
Association between physicians' interaction with pharmaceutical companies and their clinical practices: A systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed
There is moderate quality evidence that physicians' interactions with pharmaceutical companies are associated with their prescribing patterns and quality.
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · 20d
Most physicians still believe that pharmaceutical marketing provides useful information, free drug samples are good for patients, and gifts under $50 are OK to receive
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · 20d
Bernisson and Sismondo: How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters
> 1000 medical education and communication companies (MECCS) provide medical writing services, mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 8
Listen to Paul Offit's sane take on vaccines on our Pharmanipulation podcast
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Ep. 11 - "Measles is on the rise, but vaccines are still wise!" with Dr. Paul Offit
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 8
Bernisson and Sismondo: How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters
> 1000 medical education and communication companies (MECCS) provide medical writing services, mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters
Abstract. Medical writing is a key element in pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to shape the relevant medical science literature. As part of what is called
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 8
Paul Offit ousted from FDA vaccines advisory committee after multiple criticisms of HHS secretary: "RFK Jr. is laser-focused on making vaccines less available, less affordable, and more feared"
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Prominent critic of RFK Jr. blocked from FDA vaccine committee
Paul Offit, a pediatrician and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, can no longer participate in the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
"Stop regarding menopause as a disease", PharmedOut's Tony Scialli tells Healio: www.healio.com/news/primary...
Q&A: Menopause 'mythology is pervasive' in the US
There are misconceptions surrounding menopause but, first, primary care providers can help patients by not treating it as a disease, according to an expert. Anthony R. Scialli, MD, gave a present...
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
Apollonio's article used documents unearthed in litigation from the fabulous UCSF Industry Documents Library, a great resource for researchers, media and students. beta.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
Janssen and Eli Lilly successfully marketed antipsychotics Risperdal and Zyprexa to prisons and jails, a 2022 article by Dorie Apollonio finds.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Marketing Antipsychotics to Correctional Facilities: A Review of Pharmaceutical Industry Documents
This retrospective qualitative review describes the marketing of antipsychotics by pharmaceutical companies to prisons and jails to increase prescribing. This review relied on internal pharmaceutical ...
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
Hormone testing for menopausal symptoms is not useful:
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Menopause misinformation is harming care
Symptoms should be prioritised ahead of testing A societal transformation of attitudes and beliefs surrounding menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) has outpaced provider education, leaving primary care s...
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
Our 2014 article on the unfair, industry-influenced retraction of an article linking RoundUp to cancer...
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Rounding Up Scientific Journals : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
Scientific journal publishing reached a low point in November, when the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology retracted a study by
www.thehastingscenter.org
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
Corporate ghostwriting helps corporate influence: how Monsanto's ghostwritten articles affected public understanding of RoundUp's cancer risks in Wikipedia articles and policy documents:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The afterlife of a ghost-written paper: How corporate authorship shaped two decades of glyphosate safety discourse
Corporate ghost-writing is a form of scientific fraud: a paper is falsely presented as the work of people other than its actual authors. When such pap…
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
Our petition is here:
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No labeling changes petition 8_4_25.pdf | Powered by Box
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
AP article mentions PharmedOut petition asking for official FDA advisory committee meeting on proposed label changes for menopausal hormone products
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FDA's new expert panels are rife with financial conflicts and fringe views
A series of panels convened by the Food and Drug Administration is raising concerns that the agency is skirting federal rules and promoting fringe views about antidepressants and other products.
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
Patient complaints significantly associated with increased likelihood of accepting payments from industry jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Unsolicited Patient Complaints and Industry Payments for US Physicians
This cross-sectional study examines associations between unsolicited patient complaints and acceptance of general (nonresearch) payments from industry among US physicians.
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
Jen Gunter on vaginal estrogens @drjengunter.bsky.social vajenda.substack.com/p/the-black-...
The Black Box Warning on Vaginal Estrogen Might Be Wrong — and the Science Still Isn’t Complete
The FDA’s open docket is a rare chance to fix both, and here’s how you can contribute
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
Air Embolism Deaths Tied to Watchman LAA Closure Device Access Systems
www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/i...
Air Embolism Deaths Tied to Watchman LAA Closure Device Access Systems
FDA warns of 120 serious injuries and 17 deaths associated with the issue
www.medpagetoday.com
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Sep 4
RFK Jr.’s Plan to Eliminate Vaccines pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-pl...
RFK Jr.’s Plan to Eliminate Vaccines
Think VICP
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Aug 28
Hormones don't prevent disease in menopausal women! New Pharmanipulation podcast with Dr. Garnet Anderson of the Women's Health Initiative and health activist Cindy Pearson tells the truth about #menopause and menopausal hormone therapy.
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Ep. 12 – “It’s Getting Hot in Here: Menopause, the Women’s Health Initiative, and hormone therapy” with Dr. Garnet Anderson and Cindy Pearson
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Aug 28
Morton Mintz was a great muckraking Washington Post reporter who exposed the Dalkon Shield and profiled Frances Kelsey’s work on thalidomide that was crucial in passing the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendment, a law that required drug efficacy before approval.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Morton Mintz, Post reporter with a muckraker spirit, dies at 103
A pioneer in consumer affairs journalism, he helped expose the deformity-causing hazards posed by thalidomide, a once-popular drug for morning sickness.
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Aug 28
A "Modest" Number of Deaths, from Dr. Paul Offit's substack. Link: pauloffit.substack.com/p/a-modest-n...
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Aug 28
Many drug companies are selling drugs directly to consumers. www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/roche...
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Aug 28
Fugh-Berman tells MedPage Today that Makary-convened 'Expert Panel’ on menopause was “a parody” #MisinformedMakary link: www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
FDA 'Expert Panels' Raise Concerns of Evading Regulations, Ethics
Do panels cherry-pick experts and evidence that align with FDA leadership's views?
www.medpagetoday.com
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PharmedOut @pharmed-out.bsky.social · Aug 28
How disease is defined may hurt patients, from Gary Schwitzer's substack: garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-diseas...
How disease is defined may hurt patients
Preventable ignorance may lead to preventable harm
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