A sad case all around …

I need to state a theoretical conflict of interests up front. I am a member of the Board of Directors of the International Myeloma Foundation. So, having said that …
Fred Baron, a well known Texas-based lawyer and the former finance chairman of John Edwards’s presidential campaign, has progressive multiple myeloma. I am not aware of the [...]

Grasping the health care cost nettle

So between Bernadine Healy’s recent article in U.S. News and World Report (“Is healthcare Armageddon next?”) and Bob Ehrlich’s response to that article (“The health bubble“) in DTC Perspectives, could it be possible that we are finally deciding to grasp the viscious health care cost nettle that is set to sting us all if we [...]

Is UK’s NHS offering a “new model” for pharmaceutical pricing?

A report from London in today’s Daily Telegraph suggests that:
The Government is urging pharmaceutical companies to lower their initial prices for new drugs, with the promise that the [National Health Service] will pay more for them if evidence proves greater effectiveness.

I’d have more to say but I can’t stop laughing

So you’ll be glad to know it’s not just the health care and the pharmaceutical industries that have some fundamental problems with their communication issues and how these lead to a lousy public image ….