Your Prescription: Nobody knows, except the regulator, a large corporation, and drug companies - You might reasonably assume that the treatment that your doctor prescribes for you in his surgery is as private as the confessional. But, of course,...

No drug company funding on this site - Many patient support and help web sites are not quite as independent as you might think. In fact, most receive some funding from drug companies, which...

No Cure, No Charge: How to make a drug company bankrupt - Now here’s an interesting idea that is being tested in the UK. A drug company has agreed to charge the country’s National Health Service for its mult...

Medicine tainted by drug company inducements - The American Heart Association (AHA) accepted an $11 million donation from a drug company that produces a thrombolytic - a drug that breaks down blood...

Bad handwriting: It costs sales to the drug companies - Drug companies spend millions, and perhaps billions, of pounds and dollars on convincing doctors to prescribe their drugs. So nothing could be more ga...

Toys Home, Part Two: Drug companies boycott conference following speech - That’s not the only ‘we’ll take our toys home’ tantrum from the drug companies reported this week. A young medical researcher almost stopped the show...

Older Women: You probably have osteopenia, say drug companies - We’ve all heard of osteoporosis, the bone disease that can lead to fractures in older age. But how many of you have heard of osteopenia? Osteopenia...

Losing Weight: The pills don’t work, but still the drug companies push them - Can you lose weight just by popping a slimming pill? Needless to say, the drug companies think so, and they’re in the process of making the best-sell...