From this week’s New England Journal of Medicine: a review of The Body Hunters by Johns Hopkins University’s Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH:
“An accessible account… important…powerful…derive[d] from a rich set of sources…. It is critical that those engaged in drug development, clinical research and its oversight, research ethics, and policy know about these stories.” —NEJM, December [...]
The Frontline Club in London is a wonderful venue–part bar, part restaurant, and part theater–devoted to independent journalism. I gave a talk about The Body Hunters there last week, and you can see the video here: www.frontlineclub.com
When I was 18 years old or so, I arrived at the frosty, elegant Chicago offices of JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association, in hopes of securing an unpaid journalism internship at the esteemed publication. It was a terrifying experience, and I failed to make the cut. Two decades on, vindication in the [...]
No sympathy from Tauzin—a cancer survivor himself—for those sickly elders compelled to hobble onto buses to Canada to buy affordable medicines, either: according to Tauzin, these unfortunates are no better than Al-Quaeda conspirators “opening our borders…to future terrorist attacks.” (And for those concerned about the potential for abuse in tens of thousands of secretive clinical [...]
From my Washington Post review of a new book by Terry Tamminen, former head of the California EPA, which ran today:
“The corollary to the new truism that Americans are “addicted” to oil is that we can kick the habit just as we did with Big Tobacco — by penalizing the producers of the drug. So [...]
Jude Ike Nwokike is a pharmacologist at the public health research institution, Management Sciences for Health. I was especially pleased to hear his thoughts on The Body Hunters:
“Sonia! Your book is marvelous! I have not finished yet, but already feel that you did a great job. Lots of research must have gone into it; your [...]
Some early feedback from readers of The Body Hunters, both near and far:
“Thank you so much for sending me your book. It is excellent and will
have a special place on my shelf.” —A formerly high-ranking physician with Pfizer
“I really enjoyed reading your book, The Body Hunters. ( Did you base the
title on Paul de Kruif’s [...]
Important bans protecting prisoners from medical experimentation are on the verge of dissolution.
As reported by the New York Times today in a front-page story, last month the Institute of Medicine recommended that federal agencies drop the bans. The bans, long justified by the fact that people behind bars can scarcely be viewed as voluntarily consensual, [...]
I’m thrilled to report that Amazon.com has started to fill orders for The Body Hunters. A fall speaking tour that includes stops in Boston, New York, Washington DC, Tuskegee AL, Athens GA, Spokane, Seattle and London is in the works. I’m really looking forward to hearing what readers think about the book. Please do contact [...]
Today the New York Times reports on weekly consumer reports conducted by University of Michigan. According to director Richard T. Curtin, many people are suffering from pricey oil–and are changing their spending because of it: just not the rich.
“Cutbacks in spending have been concentrated among households with less than $50,000 in annual income, according to [...]
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