PhRMA, PhRMA, PhRMA. Why do you do it?

I’m talking about the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, an industry association that seems hell-bent on strangling its members. Earlier this year, it was a “voluntary” ban on tchotchkes, Post-It pads, and other gifts to doctors (except those with a purely medically educational purpose), enacted in fear of stricter constraints should such gift bans have been imposed by the federal Read more

Not a health-related post, but I wanted to say that, along with some Objectivist friends of mine, I attended the NYC Tea Party last night. It was great to see that, even in this liberal-packed city, there were at least a few thousand people turned out to protest the government’s outrageous spending spree.

Plus, our “Ayn Rand was right — read Atlas Shrugged” signs meant that we met another NYC Objectivist! A few of us have carefully built Read more

April 2 was a busy day for FDA bureaucrats. Apparently, although drugmakers have been buying Google sponsored search terms for years, it is now illegal for them to do so, and on April 2, the FDA informed 18 pharmaceutical companies that they were in violation of regulations for having bought the search terms.
The sponsored searches are misleading because they present efficacy claims without any corresponding risk information, and the FDA is further Read more