Health Watched

I’m catching up on my reading now, so passing on links to a number of  important studies , some ongoing , published in late 2010, including:

Public Citizen
Pharmaceutical Industry Is Biggest Defrauder of the Federal Government Under the False Claims Act

MSF/Doctors Without Borders
Access to Essential Medicines: Ten Stories That Mattered in 2010

ProPublica
Dollars for Docs: What Drug Companies are Paying Your Doctor

American Medical Students Association
AMSA PharmFree Scorecard 2010 : Conflict of Interest Policies at Academic Medical Centers

and in the news Supreme Court Reviews Data Mining & Free Speech

Also of  note, the upcoming conference of the National Legislative Association for Prescription Drug Prices :NLARx Meeting on Drug Pricing & Affordability, Friday, January 21, 2011, Washington D.C.