Selling Sickness 2013
People Before Profits
February 20-22, 2013
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Washington D.C.

COLLECTIVE WISDOM

COLLECTIVE WISDOM

Earlier this month I (K.W.) attended the Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project summit at Consumer Reports headquarters in Yonkers, NY. Over 31 talented advocates from 17 states came to learn, network and share ideas about ...

Nov, 30
FEMINIST CRITICS OF SEXUOPHARMACEUTICALS ARE “FRIGID COLD FISH”

FEMINIST CRITICS OF SEXUOPHARMACEUTICALS ARE “FRIGID COLD FISH”

I got really excited today when Susan Davis, a Melbourne physician who has conducted umpteen clinical trials trying to find a testosterone treatment for women with sexual complaints that will work better than placebo (keep ...

Nov, 22
MEDICAL DEVICES UNDER SCRUTINY

MEDICAL DEVICES UNDER SCRUTINY

Overtreatment, overmarketing, conflicts-of-interest and all the trappings of disease-mongering pertain not just to medical treatments, education, publishing, screening and drugs, but, increasingly, to medical devices, both the kind that are used IN the body and ...

Nov, 14
UNEXPECTED RECESS

UNEXPECTED RECESS

It’s been a rough week in the Big Apple. I’ve lived in New York City most of my life, through hurricanes and blizzards, terrorist attacks and tourist invasions, not to mention regular teacher/sanitation/transportation/newspaper union strikes, ...

Nov, 07

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