Lydia Greene's moving account of how she became a whistleblower: Confessions of an Advertising Writer: What I Learned From Your Stories—And Mine - Mad In America www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/conf...

Most physicians still believe that pharmaceutical marketing provides useful information, free drug samples are good for patients, and gifts under $50 are OK to receive jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Bernisson and Sismondo: How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters > 1000 medical education and communication companies (MECCS) provide medical writing services, mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Bernisson and Sismondo: How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters > 1000 medical education and communication companies (MECCS) provide medical writing services, mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Paul Offit ousted from FDA vaccines advisory committee after multiple criticisms of HHS secretary: "RFK Jr. is laser-focused on making vaccines less available, less affordable, and more feared" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"Stop regarding menopause as a disease", PharmedOut's Tony Scialli tells Healio: www.healio.com/news/primary...

Janssen and Eli Lilly successfully marketed antipsychotics Risperdal and Zyprexa to prisons and jails, a 2022 article by Dorie Apollonio finds. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Hormone testing for menopausal symptoms is not useful: www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Corporate ghostwriting helps corporate influence: how Monsanto's ghostwritten articles affected public understanding of RoundUp's cancer risks in Wikipedia articles and policy documents: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AP article mentions PharmedOut petition asking for official FDA advisory committee meeting on proposed label changes for menopausal hormone products apnews.com/article/fda-...

Patient complaints significantly associated with increased likelihood of accepting payments from industry jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Jen Gunter on vaginal estrogens @drjengunter.bsky.social vajenda.substack.com/p/the-black-...

Air Embolism Deaths Tied to Watchman LAA Closure Device Access Systems www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/i...

RFK Jr.’s Plan to Eliminate Vaccines pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-pl...

Hormones don't prevent disease in menopausal women! New Pharmanipulation podcast with Dr. Garnet Anderson of the Women's Health Initiative and health activist Cindy Pearson tells the truth about #menopause and menopausal hormone therapy. open.spotify.com/episode/0WGr...

Morton Mintz was a great muckraking Washington Post reporter who exposed the Dalkon Shield and profiled Frances Kelsey’s work on thalidomide that was crucial in passing the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendment, a law that required drug efficacy before approval. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

A "Modest" Number of Deaths, from Dr. Paul Offit's substack. Link: pauloffit.substack.com/p/a-modest-n...

Many drug companies are selling drugs directly to consumers. www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/roche...

Fugh-Berman tells MedPage Today that Makary-convened 'Expert Panel’ on menopause was “a parody” #MisinformedMakary link: www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

How disease is defined may hurt patients, from Gary Schwitzer's substack: garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-diseas...

Mercury Rising from Dr. Paul Offit's substack pauloffit.substack.com/p/mercury-ri...

Sarepta Refuses F.D.A. Request to Pull Duchenne Drug Linked to 3 Patient Deaths. link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h... via @nytimes.com

Dick Durbin (D-IL) spearheaded a Direct-To-Consumer Telehealth Platform exposé of Big Pharma-telehealth partnerships that essentially sell drugs directly to consumers. Read “Big Pharma’s New Sales Scheme: Expanding Patient Access or a Virtual Pill Mill?" link: www.durbin.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Cindy Pearson, women's health activist, disrupts "unbalanced and one-sided" panel on menopause treatments convened by FDA head; Pearson asked Makary to hold public meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/h...

Fugh-Berman and Mintzes editorial in American Family Physician cited in NY Times, "F.D.A. Panel to Reassess Hormone Therapy Warnings" link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/h... via @nytimes.com

Dr. Fugh-Berman and Dr. Barbara Mintzes published an editorial in American Family Physician that summarizes the evidence on menopausal hormone therapy. Link: www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/iss...

"What you see over time is that industry’s priorities become agency priorities" says Dr. Reshma Ramachandran in NYT's "Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u... via @nytimes.com

Colleen Fuller's great article on the history of insulin ijme.in/wp-content/u...

Measles vaccine still safe and effective!💉✨ Our latest Pharmanipulation podcast episode with Dr. Paul Offit on measles, vaccines, the medical freedom movement and more is out now! Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1VlC... #Pharmanipulation

FDA launches new priority review voucher program for biopharmas that ‘align with national priorities’ www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/fda-...

To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s... via @nytimes.com

Purdue Pharma $7.4 billion opioid settlement wins broad support from US states | Reuters www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Fugh-Berman and Butler on Alzheimer's blood tests: "Early treatment of cancer or heart disease may prevent severe symptoms or death, but a fast track to Alzheimer’s drugs may increase the risk of serious problems or death." www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

"A new Alzheimer's blood test is not good for patients" - Fugh-Berman and Butler in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

PharmedOut Associate Director, Caroline Renko, will be presenting our paper on pharma influence on CME at Harvard's Petrie-Flom conference on Law, Health Care, and the Aging Brain and Body Monday June 9th on CME at 3:35 . It's livestreamed! petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...

Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee’s great report in the Lever exposes how many FDA -approved drugs don’t work. www.levernews.com/fda-approved...

Great report from Patients for Affordable Drugs exposes Pharma ties of Alliance for Aging Research, Am. Action Forum, Ctr. for Medicine in the Public Interest, Pacific Research Inst., Seniors 4 Better Care and Council for Affordable Health Coverage www.patientsforaffordabledrugs.org/2025/05/19/t...

Eric Widera and Ken Covinsky speak out against blood tests for Alzheimer's, saying, a "biomarker-only–based definition risks overdiagnosis, anxiety, and unnecessary intervention..." link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy - Mad In America www.madinamerica.com/2025/04/quie...

t.co/P2mVjX3CPO via @nytopinion.nytimes.com

DOJ questions science journal about bias, triggering free speech concerns www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Art Garfunkel Latest Celeb To Push Pharma Drugs marthace6.substack.com/p/art-garfun...

Confessions of an Advertising Writer: How I Helped Pharma Sell Antidepressants - Mad In America www.madinamerica.com/2025/04/in-b...

What did Big Pharma CEOs get paid in 2024? www.mmm-online.com/news/what-di...

'Severe and irreversible': Advocates decry HHS dismantling www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/se...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h... via @nytimes.com

The Menopause Estrogen Face Cream Epidemic, by @drjengunter.bsky.social vajenda.substack.com/p/the-menopa...

Medicare Spends Billions on Oncology Drugs Offering Little Added Benefit | MedPage Today www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...

Lab-grown blood vessel approved by FDA despite dire warnings . Dr. Hooman Noorchashm (Amy J. Reed Medical Device Safety Collaborative, Northeastern School of Law,) says "If the graft falls apart...it is basically akin to the patient getting shot.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...