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Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy seminar, we discussed two examples, anemia drugs and the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) , which were prominently featured in recent articles by Peter Whoriskey in The Washington Post. The size of average doses would more than triple.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Seminar of Experts. How did you react? Afterwards, I thought there must be a better way. N Engl J Med.

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