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Can Pharma Save Dr. Lisa Cuddy?

Maybe you read the other day in The New York Times that the pharmaceutical industry has a problem. Big blockbuster drugs like Lipitor are going off patent and the industry leaders don’t have new blockbusters showing promise to replace them. So the big companies search for little companies with new discoveries and they consider buying [...]

Transparency in Health Communications

Much of what you can find on the Internet about health is fueled by big corporations and their agendas to sell you something: a product, a service, a philosophy. After 25 years devoted to health communications (17 online), I am pretty savvy about this and, with my friend and co-author Mary Thomas, am pretty near [...]

What is Insurance?

There’s more chatter lately (see the Seattle Times, The Newest Generation of Drugs: Who Can Afford Them?) about the cost of the growing list of biotech drugs “(“biologics”) that can lengthen your life and/or improve the quality of your life when you are living with an advanced cancer or a long-term chronic illness like multiple [...]