This week's challenge, sent in by a reader...

Check out this post from Nick at blogborygmi on the absurd acronyms we have for clinical trials--he had me laughing out loud. A snip...

There's an interesting article in the December 1 edition of JAMA entitled, Postmarketing Surveillance: Lack of Vigilance, Lack of Trust (subscription). From the intro: ...

This post courtesy ofAnne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is the March 12 2005 issue of ...

From the New York Post...

A few weeks ago, I posted about the potential for offshoring clinical trials--well, it's happening, according to this Reuters article on CNN...

This item on Ethical Corporation is interesting, if not surprising: When comparing surveys on pharma executive ethics, 65 percent of the senior execs surveyed believed they and their colleagues "adhere to ethical business practices"--and this...

I've never been to the American College of Cardiology annual meeting, but I cracked up when I saw it described like this in an editorial in The Motley Fool on the Stent wars between Johnson and Johnson and Boston Scientific...

There's lots of good stuff from the medical blogosphere at this week's Grand Rounds, hosted by the Hospice Guy. ...

Physician blogger DB makes some good points in this post about pay for performance--namely, that it can hurt overall patient health by discouraging docs from taking on the sickest patients. Instead, he proposes that ...