We often forget that in addition to other drugs certain foods can have unpleasant interactions with our prescriptions. An article in The Gazette (of Colorado Springs) is reminding us that especially during the holidays (we're not saying you eat too much

With the holiday crush nearing its end, PostScript would like to tip its hat (or pen) to the following parties whose bold efforts to help turn the tide against unfettered pharmaceutical marketing may have gone unnoticed in the waning days of 2007.  UMass

You could say that ads for prescription drugs were the camel's nose under the tent. Once you start advertising prescription drugs like they're shampoo or fabric softener, what's next? How about medical devices? Or even surgical procedures? Heck, why N

Last week, we here at PAL joined 11 other consumer and public interest organizations in filing a amicus curiae ("friend of the Court") brief in the case of Tafas / GSK v. Dudas et al. Details are below. PAL believes that manipulation of the patent proc

It's open enrollment season for seniors joining or changing their prescription drug coverage, so advice abounds on how to choose a Part D plan, how to comparison shop, etc. But what about once you're on a plan? Merrill Goozner, of Gooznews, wrote a pos

Penned-up frustration The Los Angeles Business Journal documented UCLA’s great pen drop, a symbol of the medical school's adoption of guidelines to govern vendor relations with physicians and researchers.  According to the Journal, UCLA is one of the medi

Here in PostScript country, we're up to the shins in snow and to the gills with yuletide spirit, so we thought we'd turn all that merriment toward something else that's on our minds...  [cues orchestra] A Data-Mining Carol [to the tune of Jingle Bells] Da

Thanks to Envisioning 2.0 for pointing us to Mark Senak's Eye on the FDA blog.  Envisioning found his breakdown of the presidential candidates' health care and pharmaceutical platforms super-interesting, and so did we.  Another interesting blog we've rece

Two Maine physicians, Drs. Ben Schaefer and Bethanie Picker, threw in their hats Monday for LD4 in the op-ed pages of the Bangor Daily News.  LD4 is a law passed in Maine earlier this year that gives doctors a choice to keep their prescribing data from be