You know, there’s not a whole lot of difference between Big Pharma ads and their YouTube parodies, except for the budgets.

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From GoozNews via The Health Care Blog:
…Last week, I learned that the [children’s health insurance] bill contains another unheralded earmark, also unrelated to children’s health. This one, too, funnels hundreds of millions of dollars to special interests … given the Orwellian name “Quality Incentive Payments in the End Stage Renal Disease Program,” [it] will subject […]

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The 2008 presidential candidates met in Iowa at the LIVESTRONG Cancer Forum to discuss their plans to improve the American healthcare system. In the discussion, Sen. John Edwards took a swing at Hilary Clinton for accepting campaign contributions from health insurers and pharmaceutical companies. From Kaiser:
He … criticized Clinton for her acceptance of […]

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Remember the little problem with Vioxx? As a result, Vioxx still has more than 13,800 lawsuits on the docket. Over the last two years, only four trials have been held, but Judge Carol Higbee is looking to pick up the pace — from glacier slow to snail-in-winter slow. Higbee’s goal, according to Pharmalot, is […]

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It’s time for the second-annual healthcare blogosphere survey by Fard Johnmar and colleagues. Here are the details, from the news release:
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Envision Solutions, LLC and Trusted.MD Network Launch Second Comprehensive Study of Global Healthcare Blogging Community
The “Taking the Pulse of the Healthcare Blogosphere” survey tracks the demographics and opinions of healthcare bloggers from around the […]

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So far, Brandweek’s hiring of Peter Rost looks like a pretty good investment, since he’s now moved BrandweekNRX up 55 places on the Healthcare 100. (Rost’s Question Authority is at #36.)

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I’m very proud of the Healthcare 100, because I think it has helped a lot of people (bloggers and non-bloggers alike) discover valuable new sources of information about health and medicine, healthcare policy, and other important issues.
I also think our ranking algorithm works pretty well. When we have issues with a blog’s place […]

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A few years ago, OxyContin was all over the news because of Rush Limbaugh’s much-publicized addiction — and also because its illicit use was so widespread in Appalachia that it was known as “hillbilly heroin.”
We’re not sure about Rush, but apparently the hillibillies have moved on — to hydrocodone. According to the AP:
As OxyContin […]

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The Healthcare 100 this week puts BrandweekNRX at #126, up from #130 last week and #169 when Peter took over the blogging duties. Peter’s Question Authority blog is also up.

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It used to be Peter Rost vs. John Mack, but now it seems that Peter’s popularity with some other pharma bloggers may be slipping following the release of his new book, The Killer Drug. Bloggers are protesting Peter’s “shameless self promotion” on his own blog and newly acquired BrandweekNRX.
A comment on Peter’s post […]

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