Feds to publicize Big Pharma Drug and Device payments to Doctors next Year

Feds to Publicize Drug and Device Company Payments to Doctors Next Year

gt_pills_300x200_130201_1 (1)After years of anticipation, all of the nation’s drug and medical device makers must soon begin publicly reporting payments they make to U.S. physicians, according to final regulations announced this month by the federal government. ”

Read Feds to Publicize Drug and Device Company Payments to Doctors Next Year by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber

How much longer will doctors need to stop dismissing DES concerns, despite medical evidence?

How much longer will doctors need to stop dismissing DES concerns, despite medical evidence?
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Despite overwhelming medical evidence, DES continues to be dismissed by doctors.

How much longer will doctors need to stop dismissing DES concerns? a post on Care2  DES Daughter's news on Care2

Read Wanted: DES Aware Doctors on Diethylstilbestrol, Journal of a DES Daughter logo

Please sign the petition Let’s all convince Eli Lilly to adequately deal with the Reality of their Disaster – Time for Actions

DES Breast Cancer Case moving forward

DES-breast cancer case can move forward, judge rules in Boston

Doctors need to know to give adequate care and ask the right questions to assess breast cancer risk in their patients; being a DES daughter is a big one,” said Caitlin McCarthy, a DES educator and activist who isn’t involved in the lawsuit.

Read DES-breast cancer case can move forward, judge rules in Boston,
Boston Globe 01.20.2012.

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Prescription drugs with fewer side-effects…

Think twice before taking any prescription drugs…

DES did not cure anything, but it had and continues to have devastating side effectsThink twice before taking any prescription drugs.

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How Drug Companies mislead Doctors and harm Patients

Edited extract from “Bad Pharma”

Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds
The shocking truth about the drugs that doctors prescribe

Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds ” which contains a long excerpt from Ben Goldacre‘s forthcoming book, Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients

Where are the lessons learned from the DES drug tragedy?