Fugh-Berman quoted in BMJ article: Menopausal hormone therapy "should not be used for disease prevention, and it should not be used to treat symptoms that are not associated with menopause. " Jennifer Block exposes Let’s Talk Menopause... www.bmj.com/content/391/...

New publication shines a light on who testifies at #FDA Advisory Committee meetings. "The FDA should consider strategies to solicit input from a broader array of stakeholders and mitigate COI among public participants." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Drug samples aren’t charity...they are intended to influence prescribing. The best way to curb pharmaceutical marketing and support evidence-based, cost-effective treatments is to ban drug samples." Butler et. al in www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

“The direction of travel is clear: Pharma is moving closer to the patient.” Will Pharma’s Direct-to-Patient Push Disintermediate Wholesalers? | PharmExec www.pharmexec.com/view/pharma-...

Millions of Kids Are on ADHD Pills. For Many, It’s the Start of a Drug Cascade. - WSJ www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Big Pharma’s Dark Money Scores $8 Billion Bonanza www.levernews.com/big-pharmas-...

More evidence that ibuprofen and acetaminophen are better than opioids for dental pain... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excellent article from @motherjones.com Menopause "doesn’t kill women or cause divorce." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Fugh-Berman on Makary's "expert" panels: “they are rife with people with conflicts of interests, include unqualified people, lack any public comment section, and are full of people spouting their often uninformed opinions rather than assessing data” insidehealthpolicy.com/share/151820

Fugh-Berman on the FDA deleting risks from menopausal hormone therapy label: “an embarrassment...They presented opinion as fact, and they misrepresented epidemiological evidence.” Jennifer Block's article in The Free Press: www.thefp.com/p/estrogen-i...

Carl Elliott and Lauren Wilson on how Hennepin Healthcare ketamine studies violated federal research guidelines. Without consent, people were injected with a dangerous drug for a research study on the made-up condition "excited delirium". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Lever released a searchable database of 429 drugs approved by the FDA between 2013 and 2022 and a color-coded assessment of the scientific evidence submitted by drugmakers. www.levernews.com/do-your-drug...

Great extensive article by Brownlee and Lenzer in the Lever on the long downward slide of the FDA. Fugh-Berman quoted: “Drug companies want advisory committees to listen to the emotions and not look at the science.” www.levernews.com/science-for-...

Unreliable external fetal monitoring drives unconscionably high U.S. C-section rate ... Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...

Notorious GSK paroxetine adolescent depression trial is slapped with expression of concern amid legal action www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Paul Offit: Raw milk advocate RFK Jr. endangers children: eliminates FDA Milk Quality Testing branch and limits CDC monitoring foodborne outbreaks. Expect an epidemic of Salmonella, Listeria, Campylobacter, and toxin-producing E. coli infections. pauloffit.substack.com/p/see-no-evi...

Novo spent about $7.5 million on more than 15 000 paid keywords over 2 years, generating 2.4 million paid visits to Ozempic’s website. (23% of keywords did not mention the drug). link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

For-profit IRBs approve unethical trials, and put patients' lives at risk www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) investigators eviscerate attacks made on the WHI's by Marty Makary's panel on menopausal hormone therapy at the FDA www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-...

"Long story short: after-the-fact warning letters won't do much to move the needle." Read the #OpEd from Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, and Judy Butler, MS on drug advertising at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117698?trw=no

"They know your age, your sex, your medications, your hospitalizations, your illnesses, and the zip code where you live..." Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman told Straight Arrow News on pharmaceutical companies and consumer's health care data. #pharma t.co/OoOD9isjfl

Opinion | Fugh-Berman and Butler in MedPage Today: ”curbing DTC drug advertising is unlikely to achieve the goal of curbing excessive prescriptions or rising drug spending.. regulatory actions should focus on banning disease awareness campaigns.” www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Judy Butler and A Fugh-Berman oppose proposed menopause laws: "By reflecting industry positions, media coverage not only conveys the message that there is widespread support for menopause laws, it also legitimizes the need for these laws." www.nj.com/opinion/2025...

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...