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“Pfizer to Pay $55M for Illegally Promoting Off-Label Use of Drug.” Press Release, United States Department of Justice Pfizer Inc. will pay $55 million plus interest to resolve allegations that Wyeth LLC illegally introduced and caused the introduction into interstate commerce of a misbranded drug, Protonix, between February 2000 and June 2001, the Justice Department . . . → Read More: Pfizer to Pay $55M for Illegally Promoting Off-Label Use of Drug
“People Living Longer but Not Healthier Lives.” By David Pittman, MedPage Today Americans are living longer thanks to advances in medical care, but have a lower quality of life with the proliferation of chronic disease and preventable illness. While deaths from cancer and cardiovascular causes continue to drop, more people are living with diabetes, hypertension, . . . → Read More: People Living Longer but Not Healthier Lives
“The Risk-Benefit Calculation of Mammograms.” By Christie Aschwanden, Slate Last week on Slate, physician Meri Kolbrener lamented that she didn’t have a good way to explain the latest evidence on mammography to her patients. When patients ask her if they should get a mammogram, Kolbrener’s answer is, “I don’t know.” Kolbrener is correct that the . . . → Read More: The Risk-Benefit Calculation of Mammograms
“Evolving Link Between Science and Advocacy at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.” By Eric Rosenthal, Oncology Times A small but significant historical moment took place during the Survivorship Educational Session on the first day of this year’s 35th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) when the moderator of the “Navigating the Obstacles and . . . → Read More: Evolving Link Between Science and Advocacy at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 
ANNOUNCEMENT Selling Sickness 2013 Conference People Before Profits February 20-22, 2013 Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill Washington D.C. Selling Sickness 2013: People before Profits will bring together academic medical reformers, consumer activists, and health journalists to examine the current scope of disease mongering and to develop strategies and coalitions for change. Topics will include . . . → Read More: Selling Sickness 2013 Conference
“Advanced Patients Mistakenly Believe Chemo is Curative.” By Lindsey Heather, Oncology Times The majority of patients with advanced lung or advanced colorectal cancer—69 and 81 percent, respectively—mistakenly believe that chemotherapy can cure their disease, according to a new study by the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium (CanCORS), published in the New England Journal . . . → Read More: Advanced Patients Mistakenly Believe Chemo is Curative 
Photography courtesy of Mark Chilvers, with thanks to UNISON for its use. Pink Ribbons, Inc. — both the book by Samantha King and the 98-minute documentary of the same name by Léa Pool – helped to open many people’s eyes to breast cancer as the “poster child” for cause related marketing, “girlie” culture, . . . → Read More: Film Review — Pink Ribbons, Inc.
“Misguided Cancer Goal.” Editorial, Nature An influential US advocacy group has set a deadline to beat breast cancer by 2020. But it puts public trust at risk by promising an objective that science cannot yet deliver. Hope is not a good strategy, in life or in disease research. So the setting of goals, and the . . . → Read More: Misguided Cancer Goal
“Ignoring the Science on Mammograms. By David H. Newman MD, The New York Times Well Blog Last week The New England Journal of Medicine published a study with the potential to change both medical practice and public consciousness about mammograms. Published on Thanksgiving Day, the research examined more than 30 years of United States health . . . → Read More: Ignoring the Science on Mammograms
“‘Boobies Rock!’ T-shirt company cashes in on cancer.” By Stephanie Zimmermann, Chicago Sun-Times You see them at bars and Bears games and other places around Chicago and the suburbs that attract big crowds and a lot of men — young women who want you to help a “good cause” by buying T-shirts and other items . . . → Read More: ‘Boobies Rock!’ T-shirt company cashes in on cancer |
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