Consumer Publications

Consumer Publications

Don’t Give Symptom-Free People Alzheimer’s Drugs

Hastings Bioethics Forum

Menopause is not a disability. Why are employers being asked to treat it like one?

The Baltimore Sun

Alzheimer's medicine a 'ray of hope'? That's marketing.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Weighing the Consequences of Weight-Loss Drugs

MedPage Today

Heating up the hot flash market with unnecessary, and potentially harmful, drugs | GUEST COMMENTARY

The Baltimore Sun

Too soon to celebrate new Alzheimer’s drug | GUEST COMMENTARY 

The Baltimore Sun

Why weight loss drugs are not the answer to obesity

KevinMD

Depriving women of this drug is good public health

KevinMD

Patricia Bencivenga and Judy Butler: Drug company tricks: Gaslighting the worried well into becoming the worried sick

Pittsburgh-Post Gazette

Opinion: Adding common-sense clarity to muddled CDC guidance

The Virginian-Pilot [Link to downloadable PDF]

CMS makes the right decision on Alzheimer's drugs | Opinion

Detroit Free Press

Op-ed: Cover hearing aids, not a questionable Alzheimer's drug

Chicago Tribune

Opinion: Caution warranted before using new Alzheimer's drug

The Detroit News

Do we all have Alzheimer's? Drug makers might want you to think so | COMMENTARY

The Baltimore Sun

Mandate COVID-19 vaccinations in care facilities

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Stop blaming Tuskegee study for Black vaccine hesitancy

The Detroit News

Masks Are Not Created Equal

Bioethics Forum

There’s trouble with tramadol that patients should know

The Columbus Dispatch

Patient Influencers Paid By Pharmaceutical Companies Should Be Required To Disclose Industry Ties

HealthAffairs

Vaping companies like mint, but not for the flavor

The Washington Post

Judy Butler & Adriane Fugh-Berman: Opioids are still overprescribed

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

As I See It: An industry report in government clothing

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Industry-funded attacks on the CDC’s opioid prescribing guideline are eroding public health 

STAT News

A New Treatment for Postpartum Depression: Boon or Bane? 

National Women's Health Network

Another Voice: Drug companies should help pay for opioid harm 

The Buffalo News 

Is the opioid epidemic now the fentanyl epidemic? 

The Baltimore Sun

Let the Sun Shine into the Medical Ivory Tower

Bioethics Forum

Addyi Rises Again

Bioethics Forum

Fentanyl at Your Door: Who are Pain Groups Advocating For?

The Hastings Center

Disclosing Corporate Funding Is Not Nearly Enough

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Five Myths About Opioids

Chicago Tribune

Women and the Opioid Epidemic

Women's Health Activist Newsletter

Rx for Change: Alternative Treatments for Chronic Pain  

Women's Health Activist Newsletter

Rx For Change: Obfuscating Opioid Risks

Women's Health Activist

The Score Is Even 

Bioethics Forum

EpiPens and the Sale of Fear

Bioethics Forum

How and why drug companies oversell the importance of EpiPens.

EpiPens are oversold and overused

South Florida Sun Sentinel

EpiPen Furor: Patient Groups Take Money, Stay Mum 

Bioethics Forum

2016 Impacts Report on the Promotion of Diabetes Drugs in Washington DC  

District of Columbia Department of Health 

KEEPS on Keeping On

Women's Health Activist

The Drug That Cried Feminism 

Bioethics Forum

Flibanserin and Regulatory Failure 

Journal of Medical Ethics blog

Flibanserin and Feminism 

Impact Ethics

Making an Example of Martin Shkreli 

Bioethics Forum

Modern Day Mengeles 

Bioethics Forum

C-Section: my rights, my body, my baby

The Washington Post

LEGGO the Logo? Why Pharma Logos Belong on CME

Bioethics Forum

Hold the statins, stat!

Women's Health Activist

Low T: Are Testosterone Treatments Safe and Effective for Men? 

National Center for Health Research

Rounding Up Scientific Journals 

Bioethics Forum

Outside Opinion: Testosterone treatments are dangerous for men 

Chicago Tribune

Device Marketing To Doctors, In and Out of the OR

Women’s Health Activist

Low T, High Profit?

Bioethics Forum

How to Hold Pharma-free Meetings (pdf)

Mammography and the Corporate Breast 

Bioethics Forum

Ghostwritten Articles Helped Sell Hormones

Women’s Health Activist

Bone-Breaking Drugs?

Women’s Health Activist

Deceptive Market Practices in the Marketplace of Ideas

Bioethics Forum

Help Your Doctor Break the Sample Habit

Women’s Health Activist

Smoke and Mirrors

Bioethics Forum

Hormones for Hot Flashes – Is “Natural” Better?

Women’s Health Activist

Meds in Kids

Women’s Health Activist

Migraines, Menopause, and Marketing

Women’s Health Activist

Classic Drugs Under Attack

Bioethics Forum

Unsafe IBS Drugs Back on the Market

Women’s Health Activist

Cervical Cancer Vaccines and Industry Influence

Bioethics Forum

The Waiting Room: Pharma’s Latest Lair

Bioethics Forum

The Dog Ate My Disclosure

Bioethics Forum

Hold the Hype on HPV 

Women’s Health Activist

Over-the-Counter Sales of Medical Records 

Women’s Health Activist

Cervical Cancer Vaccines in Context

Women’s Health Activist

Less Hormone Therapy, Less Breast Cancer

Women’s Health Activist

Big Pharma Wants to Know All About You

Women’s Health Activist

A Bone to Pick with Bone Drugs

Women’s Health Activist

Waiting Room Activism

Women’s Health Activist

Why Race-Based Medicine is a Bad Idea

Women’s Health Activist