Selling Sickness 2013
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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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