January 1997 - September 2009
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September 2009, V25#9
- Obama Administration Must Make Disciplinary Records of Nurses, Health Workers Available to Hospitals, Nursing Homes
- Letter Urging Secretary Sebelius to Provide Hospitals and Nursing Homes Access to Names of Disciplined Nurses and Other Health Workers
- A Call to Action: Why We Need Medical Resident Work Hour Reform
- Product Recalls
- Are We Now Twice as Sad? The Drug Industry and Doctors Think We Are!
- Outrage: Ghostly Prescriptions
August 2009, V25#8
- Dr. Sidney Wolfe’s Testimony before Subcommittee on Health at Hearing on Health Insurance
- Dr. Steffie Woolhandler’s Testimony before Health Subcommittee at Hearing on Health Insurance
- Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post Regarding the Coverage of the Recent Congressional Hearing on Single-Payer
- Ineffectual Medical Treatments Misleadingly Produce “Good” Results
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Medical Publisher Offers Bribes for Writing Favorable Book Reviews
July 2009, V25#7
- Q & A on the Current Health Debate: What Does a ‘Public Plan Option’ Mean and Why Does Public Citizen Oppose it?
- Hospitals Drop the Ball on Physician Oversight
- A Dictionary of Health Policy Terms, Part III
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Language Matters: Poor Communication Can Mean Poor Health Care
June 2009, V25#6
- Vermont’s Pharmaceutical Laws Move Toward Fuller Disclosure
- What is Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Why is it Being Badmouthed?
- Intro to Comparative Health Systems
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: A Coalition of the Scared
May 2009, V25#5
- Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2006-2008
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Psychoprostitution
April 2009, V25#4
- Stretching the TARP to Cover Health Care
- Bereavement: A Look at the Grieving Process and How to Cope with Loss
- Product Recalls
- How Much Is A Year of Your Life Worth?
- WARNING: MRI Scans May Burn Patients Wearing Transdermal Drug Patches
- Outrage: High Deductibles for Limited Eligibles
March 2009, V25#3
- Massachusetts’ Plan: A Failed Model for Health Care Reform
- Product Recalls
- Having Health Insurance Does Not Mean Having Health Care
- Public Hospitals, Community Clinics Suffering Under Massachusetts Health Care Reform
- Outrage: Ending the Insanity of Failed State Health Insurance Reforms
February 2009, V25#2
- Our Perfectly Designed U.S. Healthcare System
- Public Citizen Endorses Single Payer National Health System, Joins Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care
- U.S. Inmates Suffer from Chronic Illness and Poor Access to Health Care
- Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: “Morning After” Contraception Too Difficult to Get
January 2009, V25#1
- Single Payer Health Care in Taiwan: Borrowing Ideas, Improving on Medicare
- Health Letter Volume Index, 2008
- Indulgence and Innovation in Medical Care
- Product Recalls
- Smokeless Tobacco: Rebranding Nicotine, Repackaging Death
- Outrage: Full Body Scams: Not Your Source for Peace of Mind
December 2008, V24#12
In Case You Missed It: What Happened in Health in 2008 Calculating Your Risk of Death from Disease and Accidents Product Recalls Outrage: Is the Uterus a Pre-Existing Condition?
November 2008, V24#11
The Uninsured in the United States: What the Drop to 45.7 Million Means Pharma Should Not Foot the Bill for Your Doctor’s Continuing Medical Education Weighing Conscience Protection Against a Patient’s Right to Information Product Recalls Outrage: Mongering Diseases to Hawk Pills: The Case of Fibromyalgia
October 2008, V24#10
A Tale of Three Cities: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Premature Mortality in the District of Columbia, 2005 Product Recalls Outrage: Big Tobacco Targets College Students
September 2008, V24#9
- Long-Term Care Insurance: Perennial Questions, Updated Answers
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Athletic Prowess and the Doping of Consumers
August 2008, V24#8
- Unseen Payoffs and the Poverty of Prevention
- Just How Does the U.S. Health Care System Stack Up?
- Product Recalls
- "Mistakes Were Made": Disclosing Medical Errors
- Outrage: Botox, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comenici and Willie Nelson
July 2008, V24#7
- What Are Presidential Candidates (And Their Advisors) Talking About? Part II
- Macular Degeneration
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Why is Darvon (Darvocet/propoxyphene) Still Around, Hurting People?
June 2008, V24#6
- Drug Research: To Test or to Tout?
- Backsliding on Childhood Immunizations
- Public Citizen Urges Removal of Ortho-Evra Patch from Market
- Product Recalls
- Study Finds New Blood Substitutes Increase Risk of Death, Heart Attacks; Authors Question FDA’s Approval Process, Records Access
- Outrage: Human Experimentation and Speedy For-Profit Ethical Review Boards
May 2008, V24#5
- Health Policy Placebos
- Physician Support for National Health Insurance on the Rise
- Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2005-2007
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: "Physician, Heal Thyself" Not Always Simple
April 2008, V24#4
- Medical Errors and State Reporting of Adverse Events
- Public Citizen Testifies on Drug Safety Before Congress
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Unnecessary Medical Radiation: Children the Most Vulnerable
March 2008, V24#3
- Medical Records: Q&A
- Public Citizen Launches Now Blog
- Market-Based Failure: A Second Opinion on U.S. Health Care Costs
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Scarce Kidneys: Why U.S. Transplantation Policies Are Inherently Inequitable and How They Can Be Changed
February 2008, V24#2
- Lost in Translation: Why the Highly-Touted Dutch Health System Would Not Be a Good Idea for the U.S.
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Drug Industry Spends Almost Twice As Much on Promotion of Drugs As on Research
January 2008, V24#1
- Boundaries Without Barriers: Cross-Border Health in the European Union
- Product Recalls
- Health Letter Volume Index 2007 and Cumulative Index
- Outrage: Pay for Performance: Incentives Gone Awry
December 2007, V23#12
- What Happened in U.S. Health Care in 2007?
- Update on Avandia
- Product Recalls
- MedWatch
- Outrage: Illegal Kickbacks From Artificial Knee and Hip Manufacturers to Orthopedic Surgeons
November 2007, V23#11
- Rethinking Health Care for the Elderly
- More Than A Prayer for Single Payer
- Product Recalls
- Another U.S. Go-It-Alone Policy
- Outrage: "Reminder Ads": Innuendo Minus Information
October 2007, V23#10
- Equal Pay for Equal Work? Not For Medicaid Doctors
- Hoodia: Another Weight Loss Scam
- Product Recalls
- Research as Public Relations
- Outrage: Are Hospitals Making Us Sicker?
September 2007, V23#9
- Improving Public Access to Clinical Trial Information
- Scapegoating Immigrants
- Product Recalls
- The Latest Data on the Uninsured
- Outrage: Manipulating the Hispanic Market: The Case of Viagra
August 2007, V23#8
- What Are The Presidential Candidates Talking About?: A Brief Dictionary of Health Policy Terms
- Product Recalls
- Now, Let the Victim Beware
- Taming Technology
- Outrage: Our Health Care System
July 2007, V23#7
- Q&A on the Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine Gardasil
- Product Recalls
- Organ Donations: What Price, The Priceless?
- Taming the Giant Corporation
- Outrage: PDUFA: Buying Votes, Selling Unsafe Products
June 2007, V23#6
- Public Citizen’s Ranking of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2004-2006
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Avandia: Not-So-New News of Heart Problems With the Popular Diabetes Drug
May 2007, V23#5
- Back to Basics: Clean Water as a Medical Milestone
- Doctors and Drug Company Favors
- Drugs for Weight Loss
- Product Recalls
- Do Not Use Dextromethorphan
- Outrage: What’s Wrong With This Story?: Pharmaceutical Company Files Sales Director for Telling the Truth
April 2007, V23#4
March 2007, V23#3
Public Citizen Petitions FDA to Ban Third-Generation Oral Contraceptives Product Recalls Cough and Cold Meds Send Babies to Hospital American Life Expectancy on Rise Colds: How to Treat Them Outrage: And The Oscar for Best Drugumentary Goes To…
February 2007, V23#2
Medicaid @ 40: Why It Matters Work and Wellness: Collusion or Collision? A Statement by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Health Letter’s Editor-in-Chief Conflicts of Interest: An Issue That Will Not Go Away Product Recalls Conflicts of Interest Among Clinical Investigators Outrage: Essay: What’s Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses
January 2007, V23#1
Dr. Wolfe’s Diet Revolution Product Recalls Health Letter Volume Index 2006 and Cumulative Index Outrage: Conflicts of Interest: The Hidden Side of Science
Volume 22, Number 12, December 2006
Volume 22, Number 11, November 2006
New York City’s Answer to the Diabetes Epidemic: Screen, Trace, Track and Act: More Public Health, Fewer Pharmaceuticals A Broader Context: Diabetes in the United States and in the World What is Diabetes? Bogus Cures for Diabetes on the Internet The New York City Department of Health’s Recommendations for Living with Diabetes Product Recalls Diabetes in the U.S.: The Epidemic in Numbers Placing the Promise of Prevention in Context: The Case against the Diabetes Drug Rosiglatizone (Avandia)
Volume 22, Number 10, October 2006
Crime and Punishment, Medical Style The US FDA at a Crossroads No “Alternative” Product Recalls The Number of Uninsured in the United States Reaches 46.6 Million
Volume 22, Number 9, September 2006
The Changing Dynamics of C-Sections in the United States: Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request: Part II Patients Without Borders:: The Emergence of Medical Tourism: Part II The “Ultimate Prize” for Big Tobacco: Opening the Chinese Cigarette Market by Cigarette Smuggling Product Recalls - Fairness Creams in South Asia: A Case of Disease Mongering?
Volume 22, Number 8, August 2006
Volume 22, Number 7, July 2006
Patients Without Borders: The Emergence of Medical Tourism Study Finds Many Favor A Single Payer System Product Recalls Much-Needed Corrective Lenses for the “Clinical Eye” Laser Therapy for Smoking: Shining a Laser on Bad Advertising Practices - The Growing Gap in Reproductive Health
Volume 22, Number 6, June 2006
Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions: 2003-2005 Poll: People Understand Systemic Problems at FDA Product Recalls Exercise Status and Future Dementia Study Finds Glucosamine, Chondroitin Ineffective for Joint Pain Outrage: Pharmaceuticals Need Price Controls
Volume 22, Number 5, May 2006
Volume 22, Number 4, April 2006
Hearing Aids: Why Medicare Should Provide Coverage Despite New Study, Crestor Should Not Be Prescribed Product Recalls Chromium Industry Withheld Data from OSHA Outrage: Darvon and Darvocet: What Are They Thinking?
Volume 22, Number 3, March 2006
Drugs Used to Treat High Blood Pressure Elevated Cholesterol Levels Who Needs Nondietary Potassium Supplementation? Product Recalls Outrage: Health Care Quality?
Volume 22, Number 2, February 2006
High Blood Pressure The High Cost of Cancer Treatment Product Recalls Preventing Dementia with Exercise Outrage: Why Over-the-Counter? Diet Drug Poses Risks, Questionable Benefits
Volume 22, Number 1, January 2006
Saving Money When Buying Prescription Drugs: Part III: Caution When Purchasing Drugs on the Internet Recall Update Product Recalls Health Letter Volume Index 2004 and Cumulative Index Outrage: Medicare Part D: What Benefit?
Volume 21, Number 12, December 2005
Drivel from the Drug Industry/U.S. Government Axis Saving Money When Buying Prescription Drugs, Part II: Generic Drugs Product Recalls Outrage: Second Chances: Big Tobacco Enters the Health Care Industry
Volume 21, Number 11, November 2005
Curbing the Influence of the Drug Industry: A British View Saving Money When Buying Prescription Drugs Product Recalls Public Citizen Writes of Drug Company Deception in Lancet Medical Journal FDA Reverses Course of Needle Sticks, Shows Profound Indifference to Worker Health Outrage: Helping Drug Reps Serve You Better: National Healthcare Census
Volume 21, Number 10, October 2005
FDA Device Regulation Leaves Unsafe Products on Market: Public Citizen Petitions for Better Rules Antibiotic Clarithromycin (BIAXIN) Can Have Deadly Interaction with Anti-Gout Drug Colchicine Product Recalls Three Misleading Direct-to-Consumer Ad Campaigns Insurers Have it Wrong on Malpractice—Again Industry Drug Guidelines Will Do Little to Prevent Misleading Ads
Volume 21, Number 9, September 2005
New “Diseases”: Often Invented by Drug Industry Marketing Departments to Sell You Drugs Ten Additional Causes of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Preventing the Epidemic of Skin Cancer: A Guide for Protecting Yourself and Your Family Product Recalls Asthma Medicines That Can Cause Asthma Attacks: Do Not Use Serevent, Advair, or Foradil Outrage: FDA Denial of Public Citizen’s Petition to Ban Meridia is Misguided
Volume 21, Number 8, August 2005
Sleight-of-Hand: Merck Contemplated Vioxx Reformulation in 2000 While Denying Risk Can I Buy You Dinner? Pharmaceutical Companies Increasingly Use Doctors’ Talks as Sales Pitches Product Recalls Pennsylvania Data Show Large Number of Hospital-Acquired Infections Decreased Child Mortality a Possibility with Appropriate Funding, Study Shows FDA Issues Guidelines for Consumer Prescription Drug Information FDA Approves Depression Device Without Proof of Effectiveness Outrage: Warning: Contains FDA-Approved Drug…
Volume 21, Number 7, July 2005
Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies Scientific Misconduct: Rare or Rampant? Product Recalls Successfully Pushing Paxil on Television Outrage: Drug Rep (salesman) vs. Dr. Grobstein
Volume 21, Number 6, June 2005
Volume 21, Number 5, May 2005
In Memoriam: Bill Hines, 1917-2005 “…Makes You Stop and Think” Product Recalls HMO-Medicare Crisis: Is Health Insurance for the Elderly on the Way Out? Outrage: The Causes of Misprescribing and Overprescribing
Volume 21, Number 4, April 2005
- George A. Silver, M.D., 1913-2005: In Memoriam
- Misprescribing and Overprescribing of Drugs
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: The Problem Is…
Volume 21, Number 3, March 2005
- Medical Liability Reform? FDA Does Not Adequately Protect Consumers
- Illness and Medical Bills Cause Half of All Bankruptcies
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Get the Lead Out
Volume 21, Number 2, February 2005
Volume 21, Number 1, January 2005
Health Care: Beyond Markets Product Recalls Health Letter Volume Index 2004 and Cumulative Index Outrage: HHS Fails to Warn About Preventing Falls in Older Adults
Volume 20, Number 12, December 2004
- Single Payer: Good for Business
- The View From Vermont
Volume 20, Number 11, November 2004
America’s Neglected Veterans: 1.7 Million Who Served Have No Health Coverage Blockbuster Arthritis Drug Rofecoxib (VIOXX) Withdrawn From Market: Worst Pills, Best Pills News Readers Warned in 2001: DO NOT USE Screening for Colon Cancer: Insurance Coverage Still Spotty “Stealth PACs” Give Drug Industry Big Bang for Its Bucks
Volume 20, Number 10, October 2004
- Cheap Trick: Bush’s health-savings accounts are a bargain—provided you never get injured or sick
- You Have Reached the Medicare Program. Please Hold for the Next Available Source of Inaccurate Information.
- Discovering Health Care Fraud and “Telling”: Whistleblowers
Volume 20, Number 9, September 2004
- Blood Safety
- Why is the U.S. So Far Behind on Prescription Drug Price Controls?
- DO NOT USE! Lawsuit Reveals Serious Safety Problems With The Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug (NSAID) Valdecoxib (BEXTRA)
- Even Moderate Amounts of Exercise Can Prevent Weight Gain
- DO NOT USE! Long-Term Treatment with The Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Donepezil (ARICEPT) Ineffective
- Weapons of Mass Destruction and Medicine
Volume 20, Number 8, August 2004
- The People Have Spoken: The Drug Industry Doesn’t Serve Us Well
- Boutique Medicine (Concierge Care) Revisited
- Doctor Bribing in Italy
- Suicide Risk Added To The Professional Product Labeling For Eight Antidepressants
- DO NOT USE—Save Your Money: Dextromethorphan (DELSYM or generic) Or Diphenhydramine (BENADRYL or generic) Ineffective for Nighttime Cough in Children
- Outrage: Medizine: Drug Ads Masquerading as News
Volume 20, Number 7, July 2004
- The High Costs of For-Profit Care
- It Takes Two to Tango (or to Bribe): Big-Time Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry with the Help of Doctors
- Regular Exercise May Prolong Your Life
- The Wild, Wild Web for Prescription Drugs
- Outrage: Breast Implants as High School Graduation Presents: Just Poor Parenting or Child Abuse?
Volume 20, Number 6, June 2004
- Patent Fiction
- National Health Insurance: Falling Expectations and the Safety Net
- DO NOT USE! Dangerous Drug for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Constipation Predominant Tegaserod (ZELNORM)
- Improper Antibiotic Treatment for Bladder Infections
- Outrage: Serious and Growing Problem of Antibiotic Resistance
Volume 20, Number 5, May 2004
- Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical board Serious Disciplinary Actions in 2003
- The Antidepressant Fluoxetine (PROZAC) and Suicidal Ideation—Déjà vu 1991
- Saline Spray: Do Try This at Home
- Outrage: FDA Frustrates the Intent of Congress for 17 Years
Volume 20, Number 4, April 2004
- Prescriptions and Profit
- Publicity about Recent Studies on the Cholesterol-lowering Statin Drugs: Misinterpretations
- Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Bad News for Most Patients and Doctors
- Comments of a Canadian Doctor: After 10 years, has anything really changed for the better?
- Outrage: Serious Concerns about a Portable Ventilator (respirator)
Volume 20, Number 3. March 2004
- Overselling Donepezil (ARICEPT) and Exploiting Patients with Alzheimers Disease: Why Isn’t The FDA Stopping These Ads?
- New Jersey Slow to Police Problem Physicians
- Outrage: Kidney Dialysis Facilities: Serious Problems of Compliance with Medicare Quality Standards
Volume 20, Number 2, February 2004
- Study Shows National Health Insurance Could Save $286 Billion on Health Care Paperwork
- Product Recalls
- Canada Outdoes U.S. on Flu Vaccine Policy
- How to Achieve Positive Results Without Really Lying
- Outrage: AARP and Medicare Legislation
Volume 20, Number 1, January 2004
- Breast Cancer: New Information About Screening Mammography and Genetics
- Product Recalls
- Health Letter Volume Index 2003 and Cumulative Index
- Outrage: National Institute of Mental health Fails to Fund Important Mental Health Research
Volume 19, Number 12, December 2003
- Documentary Shows Problems in Pharmaceutical Industry, FDA
- Product Recalls
- FDA Issues Public Health Advisory On Antidepressants and Suicide Risk in Children
- How to Report Adverse Reactions to the FDA
- Outrage: Do Not Use: Dangerous Antidepressant Nefazodone (SERZONE) Withdrawn From the Market in Canada
Volume 19, Number 11, November 2003
- A Conversation With Sheldon Krimsky: Uncoupling Campus and Company
- Advertising Dietary Supplements on the Internet: Supplementing Income Rather than
- Health
- Product Recalls
- Do Not Use: Asthma Drug Montelukast (SINGULAIR) for the Treatment of Hay Fever
- Outrage: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us
Volume 19, Number 10, October 2003
- A New Health Care Gimmick: Concierge Medicine
- Do Not Use: Rosuvastatin (CRESTOR) — A New But More Dangerous Cholesterol-Lowering “Statin” Drug
- A Reminder About the Dangerous of Aspirin and Reye’s Syndrome
- Product Recalls
- Meridia — Weight Loss or Health Loss?
- Outrage: Food and Drug Disaster
Volume 19, Number 9, September 2003
- Sweetening the Pill
- CPSC Says Consumers Continue to Use Dangerous Products Despite Recalls, Warnings
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: FDA-Approved Patient Information Needed
Volume 19, Number 8, August 2003
Profitably Inventing New Diseases The pharmaceutical industry cashes in by "creating" diseases Secret No More Medicare investigation results now fair game Product Recalls From sunscreen to extension cords: watch out! Bad Medicine Why Bush's malpractice policy will only help insurers Outrage of the month Taxol: How the NIH gave away the store
Volume 19, Number 7, July 2003
Volume 19, Number 6, June 2003
- Doctor, Advocate, Activist
- Health Research Group Ranks Medical Boards
- Product Recalls
- Resisting Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- Outrage: Democracy by Disclosure: A Book Review
Volume 19, Number 5, May 2003
- Ephedra: Scientific Evidence Versus Money/Politics
- Calcium By Any Other Name is Still Calcium
- Bereavement
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: The Uncovering of an Undercoder: A Story of Medicine Triumphant
Volume 19, Number 4, April 2003
- Cost, Quality and Choice: Winning Less Expensive, Better Quality Health Care For America
- Affordable Reform That Benefits Patients
- The Dangers of Some Screening Tests
- A Free Ride for Bad Doctors
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Nexium Offers Unique Advantage Over Generic Omeprazole
Volume 19, Number 3, March 2003
- Selling "New" Drugs Using Smoke and Mirror (Images)
- Foggy Thinking as Inhaled Flu Vaccine Nears FDA Approval
- Product Recalls
- MedWatch Reporting Form
- Outrage: U.S. Air Force Flies High on Dexedrine
Volume 19, Number 2, February 2003
- Medical Errors, Not Lawsuits, are Real Cause of Rising Malpractice Insurance Premiums
- Inadequate Doctor Discipline by State Medical Boards
- Government Publishes Adult Immunization Schedule
- Product Recalls
- Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer Prevention?
- Outrage: Wanna Quit Smoking? Who you Gonna Call? Philip Morris?
Volume 19, Number 1, January 2003
- "Neglected to Death:" The Scandalous Condition of American Nursing Homes
- Product Recalls
- Phyllis McCarthy Annual Public Interest Award
- Health Letter Volume Index, 2002 and Cumulative Index
- Remedies Needed to Address the Pathology in Reporting Adverse Reactions and Food and Drug Administration Use of Reports
Volume 18, Number 12, December 2002
- 25,00 U.S. Deaths a Year Because of For-Profit Kidney Dialysis
- Low Quality HMOs Hide Performance Data from Public, Says Journal of the American Medical Association Study
- Blind to the Data: OSHA Looks the Other Way as Workers Exposed to Hexavalent Chromium
- Product Recalls
- Drug Safety Withdrawals: Who is Responsible for Notifying Patients?
- "Dangerous Political Cowardice:" FDA Fails to Ban Dietary Supplement Ephedra
- Outrage: The Corruptible Academic-Industry Partnership
Volume 18, Number 9, November 2002
- Unsafe Drugs: Congressional Silence is Deadly (Part 2)
- FDA Caves In to Industry, Fails to Adequately Address Tylenol Overdoses
- Product Recalls
- High Blood Pressure in the Physician’s Office?
- Alzheimer’s Disease: Major Market Here to Stay
- Outrage: GAO Report Backs Link Between Drug User Fees and Higher Rate of Drug Withdrawals
Volume 18, Number 8, October 2002
- ADAPT Trial for Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Should Be Canceled
- Will a Vitamin a Day Keep the Doctor Away?
- Questionable Doctors Online
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Strange Bedfellows: How the Tobacco and Drug Industries Collaborated to Undermine Anti-Smoking Efforts
Volume 18, Number 8, September 2002
- The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
- Update on the Illegal Promotion of Gabapentin (Neurontin)
- Product Recalls
- Pressure On to Ban Ephedra
- West Nile Virus Activity
- Outrage: Health Research Group Asks for Metabolife President to be Investigated
Volume 18, Number 8, August 2002
- Ethical Implications of Cosmetic Surgery for Aging
- Product Recalls
- Is Your Doctor Selling You to the Highest Bidder?
- Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Outrage: "It’s Botox Night at Hopkins"
Volume 18, Number 7, July 2002
- Big Pharma Buys Psychiatry: An Aura of Scandal
- Product Recalls
- Conflict of Interest?
- Nicotine Lollipops: Sweet, Addictive and Illegal
- Cancer.gov
- Ten Years Ago Today
- Outrage: Department of Health and Human Services Fails to Ban Ephedra or Issue Adequate Warnings
Volume 18, Number 6, June 2002
- Questionable Doctors Online: Disciplined Doctor Resource Debuts on Public Citizen Web Site in June
- Understanding Risks — and the Risks You Run by Misunderstanding Them
- Overworked Doctors Walk Off the Job
- Product Recalls
- Preventing Heat Induced Death and Illness
- Outrage: New Study: Wait Seven Years to Use New Drugs
Volume 18, Number 5, May 2002
- Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions in 2001
- Survey of Doctor Disciplinary Information on State Web Sites
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: Possible Corruption at the American Heart Association
Volume 18, Number 4, April 2002
- Saving Your Sight — Early Detection is Critical
- Nursing Homes: More Can Be Done to Protect Residents from Abuse
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: No Care for the Care Givers
Volume 18, Number 3, March 2002
- Direct-To-Consumer Advertising — Education or Emotion Promotion?
- Analysis: HMOs Try New Approach to Keep Drug Cost Down
- Rx Needed for Medical Journals
- Product Recalls
- Outrage: We Wish this Hospital Well
Volume 18, Number 2, February 2002
- The Destruction of Medicine by Market Forces: Teaching Acquiescence or Resistance and Change?
- Good Business Suggestions [Business Week on controlling drug costs]
- Product Recalls
- Health Research Group Asks New Mexico to Sanction Doctor
- New Study Shows Low Income Minority Seniors Restrict Use of Prescription Drugs
- What Ails the Mass. Board of Medicine?
- FDA Action on Red Cross Long Overdue
- Canadians Begin Recall of Dangerous Drug Supplement Ephedra
- Outrage: The AMA Does It Again
Volume 18, Number 1, January 2002
What’s New In Screening Mammography Product Recalls Clearing the Smoke from Low-Tar and Nicotine Cigarettes Health Letter Volume Index 2001 and Cumulative Index Outrage: Oops — Did It Again (or, Escondido in Escondido)
Volume 17, Number 12, December 2001
"You Can’t Leap a Chasm in Two Jumps" Product Recalls "...Makes You Stop and Think!" Philip Morris Brags About its Killer Cigarettes Living and Dying DEA Promotes Public Citizen Information Outrage: "I Have Never Seen Anything Like This"
Volume 17, Number 11, November 2001
Insufficient Credits Drugs for Possible Exposure to Anthrax: What Makes Sense? An Epidemic of Lung Disease Caused by a Quarter-Century of Government Inaction Product Recalls Colds: How to Treat Them Outrage: The Lupron Loophole — and the Doctors Who Exploited It
Volume 17, Number 10, October 2001
Health Care Reform Coming? Don’t Bet the Farm On It Unsafe Drugs: Congressional Silence Is Deadly Product Recalls Outrage: Do Not Use Ephedra
Volume 17, Number 9, September 2001
Criminal Charges Should Be Filed Against Schering-Plough Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Ads: Illegal, Unethical or Both Below the Beltway Product Recalls Outrage: Crouching Government, Hidden Snake Oil
Volume 17, Number 8, 2001
In Memory of Our Colleague Henry Bergman Questionable Hospitals Product Recalls Outrage: Darvon, Darvocet, Darvon Compound
Volume 17, Number 7, July 2001
Hormone Therapy: Doubts Grow Drug Companies’ Antics Can Really Make You Sick Product Recalls Why Doesn’t the Government Know About These Doctors? Outrage: "Operation Cure.All" Wages New Battle in Ongoing War Against Internet Fraud
Volume 17, Number 6, June 2001
Public Citizen Petitions OSHA to Limit Residents’ Working Hours Preventing Heat-Induced Death and Illness Product Recalls Outrage: Lontronex and the FDA: A Fatal Erosion of Integrity
Volume 17, Number 5, May 2001
Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions in 2000 How to Reduce the Risk of Mad Cow Disease in the United States Product Recalls Outrage: Dietary Supplements: The FDA Should Do More
Volume 17, Number 4, April 2001
Latin America: the Answer to Drug Companies' Problems? Election 2000 Commentators Product Recalls One Drug Company--Shering-Plough--Faces Massive Recalls High Drug Prices for Research or Profit? Is This Doc Deadly? His Practice Hasn't Been Perfect Outrage: CASHCOW--Here a Moo, There a Moo
Volume 17, Number 3, March 2001
Is the U.S. Safe from Mad Cow Disease? Could We Be Safer? Still Hard to Swallow Product Recalls It's the Calories that Count COX-2 Inhibitors Vioxx and Celebrex: Keep Staying Away Consumer Product Safety Commission Finally Sees the Light on Lead in Candles Outrage: A Discussion of Misleading Drug Ads
Volume 17, Number 2, February 2001
Unhealthy Partnership: How Massachusetts and Its Managed Care Contractor Shortchange Troubled Children Bad Policy, Worse Medicine Let the ‘Non-Governments' Beware: Multinational Organizations Are Out to Co-opt You and Your Tactics Product Recalls Outrage: None of Your Business
Volume 17, Number 1, January 2001
FDA Fails to Get the Point on Safe Needles for Health Care Workers Sex Education Information on the Internet: Caveat Emptor! Product Recalls Volume Index, 2000 and Cumulative Alphabetic Index Outrage: FDA Accuses Red Cross of Jeopardizing the Safety of the Blood Supply
Volume 16, Number 12, December 2000
Is U.S. Health Really the Best in the World? Osteoporosis A Better Quality Alternative: Single Payer National Health Reform Medical Fluoroscopy: Radiation-induced Skin Injury Product Recalls Outrage: America's Ailing Medical Education System
Volume 16, Number 11, November 2000
Review of Calcium Supplements; Ads Exaggerate Differences Long-Acting Calcium Channel Blockers Inferior to Older Blood Pressure Lowering Drugs in Preventing Heart Attacks and Heart Failure When is a Patient Group Not a Patient Group? Product Recalls Television and Obese Children: A Strong Connection Sitting Backwards is Safer HRG Petitions the FDA to Ban Dangerous Diet and Cough/Cold Drugs in Over-the Counter Products Outrage: "Too Much Corporate Power"
Volume 16, Number 10, October 2000
Volume 16, Number 9, September 2000
Volume 16, Number 8, August 2000
The Pharmaceutical Industry--To Whom is It Accountable? Hundreds of Thousands of Workers at Risk from Hexavalent Chromium, Study Obtained Through FOIA Shows Product Recalls Report Estimates Air Lead Levels from Some Candle Wicks at Up to 36 Times EPA Standards The Risks of Tranquility Outrage: Erroneous and Misleading Reports in Media About Prescription Drugs
Volume 16, Number 7, July 2000
Volume 16, Number 6, June 2000
Kids First? How Vaccination Politics Can Undermine Public Health Product Recalls eLetter Web Site Launched on Drugs for the Seriously Mentally Ill Doctors or Nurses - Does it Really Make a Difference? Summer: How to Protect Yourself Dangerous Gap in the Drug Safety System Canadian Update on the Drug Celecoxcib (CELEBREX) Confirms HRG Warning Outrage: Mother Dies, But Son Can't Get Explanation Because Her Doctor Won't OK Inquiry's Disclosure
Volume 16, Number 5, May 2000
Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions in 1999 Do Not Use This Drug: Propulsid Withdrawn from the Market Product Recalls Loyalty in Government Service - to Whom? Reducing Dangers to Pregnant Women Outrage: Drkoop.CON: America's Family Doctor and his Conflicts of Interest, Part II
Volume 16, Number 4, April 2000
Safety Alert! It Is Better to Curse the Darkness Than to Light This Kind of Candle St. John's Wort: A Growing List of Harmful Drug Interactions Medicare: Few Beneficiaries Use Colorectal Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Services Product Recalls Patients, Doctors Not Warned of Dangers of New Diabetes Drugs Outrage: Health News Feels the Censor's Knife
Volume 16, Number 3, March 2000
Survey of Doctor Disciplinary Information on State Medical Board Web Sites Untested Herbs and Food Supplements for Pregnant Women Making the FDA Retract its Dangerous Regulation Product Recalls New Concerns About Menopausal Hormones and Breast Cancer Outrage: The Unkindest Cut of All: Unnecessary Episiotomies
Volume 16, Number 2, February 2000
Managed Costs, Mismanaged Care Primary Care in the United States - The Best of Times, the Worst of Times Trust Me, I'm a Patient Hollywood Hails a Tobacco Whistle Blower Product Recalls Debate on FDA's Recent Decision on Herbal Products Outrage: Flu Epidemic May Be Just a Flu Advertisement
Volume 16, Number 1, January 2000
Wrong Prescription: Bill Bradley's Health Plan is No Cure For-Profit Kidney Dialysis Centers Compromise Kidney Care Point/Counterpoint: Is it Ethical to Pay Research Subjects Large Sums? Product Recalls Health Letter Volume Index for 1999 and Cumulative Index for 1985-1999 Outrage: Study Shows Widespread Medical Errors
Volume 15, Number 12, December 1999
‘Hope Lodge' Movement Offers Hope to Cancer Patients Away from Home Medical Merger Product Recalls The Grass Really is Greener to the North Important Safety Reminder - Reye's Syndrome and Aspirin Some More Questions About Your HMOs The Science of Arresting Human Intelligence Long Enough to Get Money from It Outrage: Milton, Matthew and Managed Care
Volume 15, Number 11, November 1999
Losing Weight: The Truth is Hard to Swallow Product Recalls Another Medical Myth Laid to Rest Outrage: Bradley and Gore Rehash Stale Ideas
Volume 15, Number 10, October 1999
Clinton Administration Scuttles Worker Protections An Interview with Breastfeeding Advocate and Formula Fighter Bobbi Philipp, M.D. "Try It, You'll Like It" - For a Hefty Price: The Drugmaker's Scam on the Public When Money is the Mission - The High Costs of Investor-Owned Care Product Recalls Outrage: Doctors and Rexall Combine to Push Worthless Dietary Supplements to Patients
Volume 15, Number 9, September 1999
Fraudulent Health Claims: Don't Be Fooled Product Recalls Off-Label Dangers Young Children Continue to Die Unnecessarily on U.S. Farms Outrage: Pfizer Caught Trying to Subvert National Guidelines for Treating Children's Ear Infections
Volume 15, Number 8, August 1999
Below the Beltway Second Opinion: Temptation Makes a House Call Product Recalls Health Talk: Doctors Online Worse Quality Medical Care in For-Profit HMOs Than in Not-for-Profits Outrage: Dr. Koop: Part I
Volume 15, Number 7, July 1999
Preventing Heat-Induced Death and Illness The Wild, Wild Web Safety of Speedy FDA Drug Approval Being Questioned Asleep on the Job Product Recalls Workplace Deaths: Where is the Federal Prosecution of Employers? Outrage: Star Wars and Drugs
Volume 15, Number 6, June 1999
Public Citizen's Health Research Group Petitions the FDA to Revise Labeling on the Breast Cancer Drug Tamoxifen (NOLVADEX) In the Public Interest In Memoriam: John O. Nestor, M.D. Product Recalls Dangerous Drug Information on the Internet from Aetna/US Healthcare and Johns Hopkins Outrage: Prescription Drug Profiles --- Accessible to All?
Volume 15, Number 5, May 1999
Public Citizen's Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions in 1998 International Research Ethics Code Under Siege Notes from Sidney Wolfe's Mom Nurses, Patients and Managed Care Product Recalls Outrage: The Troglitzone (Rezulin) Safety Meeting
Volume 16, Number 4, April 1999
Adverse Drug Reactions Crazy About Sex [Problems] Preventing Osteoporosis, Falls and Fractures in Older Adults Medicare Must Cover Prescription Drugs and Control Prices The ACLU's Tobacco Addiction, Continued Product Recalls Outrage: Lessons from the George Lundberg Firing
Volume 15, Number 3, March 1999
The New Edition of Worst Pills, Best Pills Serious Health Insurance Problems Exhaustion that Kills Product Recalls Outrage: The FDA and Abbott Are Comfortable
Volume 15, Number 2, February 1999
"Going Bare": Uninsured Portion of U.S. Population Is Growing Rapidly, Survey Discloses The Drug Approval Process Product Recalls A Dirty Little Secret: Managed Care is Bad of Business Outrage: One More Hoax: The Neediest Would Get No Benefit from Clinton's Proposed Tax Credit
Volume 15, Number 1, January 1999
FDA Medical Officers Report Lower Standards Permit Dangerous Drug Approvals Healthy Patients and Wealthy HMO Stockholders: An Impossible Mix Product Recalls Health Letter Volume Indices, 1997 and 1998 Health Letter Cumulative Alphabetical Index Outrage: Andy Rooney: The Tobacco Deal
Volume 14, Number 12, December 1998
FDA's Controversial Decision: Tamoxifen (Nolvadex) Approved to Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer HMO Medicare Crisis: Is Health Insurance for the Elderly on the Way Out? Just Health Care Product Recalls Outrage: The ACLU's Tobacco Addiction
Volume 14, Number 11, November 1998
Inequities Documented in Medicare's Kidney Transplant Program Effects of Anti-theft and Metal Detector Systems on Some Medical Devices The Pitfalls of Untested "Alternative Medicine" Remedies Product Recalls What Role for Chiropractic in Health Care Outrage: Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Jumps to 43.2 Million
Volume 14, Number 10, October 1998
U.S. Multinational Tobacco Companies' Double Standards Exposed Health Letter 10 Years Ago Product Recalls Don't be a Casualty on the Information Super Highway Major Access Barriers Identified in 10-State Health Insurance Study Outrage: Merck Drug, Mark McGwire and Barbecue
Volume 14, Number 9, September 1998
Toward Universal Coverage Breast Implants: The Debate Continues Which Side of the Street is the AMA Working? International Comparison of Drug Prices Product Recalls Outrage: Maliciously Blurring the Line Between News and Advertising
Volume 14, Number 8, August 1998
Volume 14, Number 7, July 1998
Volume 14, Number 6, June 1998
Cataracts In Adults: A Patient's Guide Cataract Surgery Is This Trip Really Necessary? Product Recalls Preventing Heat-Induced Death and Illness Doctors Need Patient's Help to Report Adverse Reactions to Drugs and Devices Outrage: High-Heeled Shoes -- An Important Health Hazard
Volume 14, Number 5, May 1998
Public Citizen Health Research Group Ranking of State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions in 1997 Dozens of Thai Infants Were Needlessly Infected with HIV in Unethical U.S. Govt-Funded Study Product Recalls Making A Difference: Can One Lone Consumer Persuade a Major Pharmaceutical Company to Change and Improve its Product? Call For a Doctor! And Call...and Call...and Call Switching Sides Outrage: American Cancer Society and American Health Association
Volume 14, Number 4, April 1998
Volume 14, Number 3, March 1998
16, 638 Questionable Doctors Health Insurance: Physical Abnormalities as Barriers to Treatment Product Recalls Access to Health Care: Some Nibbles and a Bite Criminalizing Medical Malpractice Is It Time to Quit the AMA? Nutri/System Diet Clinics -- Dealing Diet Drugs
Volume 14, Number 2, February 1998
Powdered Latex Gloves Pose Serious Risk An Appreciation: Esther Peterson 1906-1997 Product Recalls Grim Details Under the Headlines First, Do No Harm (Pending Prior Approval) Unproven "Anti-Aging" Hormones Promise Youth Bone Up! Choose Foods that are High in Calcium Outrage: Direct-to-Consumer Hucksterism
Volume 14, Number 1, January 1998
Hospital Emergency Rooms and Patient Dumping For Patients, Not Profits Product Recalls Bugs Causing Food Poisoning Health Letter Indexes Outrage: There They Go Again: The Joint Commission Protects Potentially Dangerous Hospitals
Volume 13, Number 12, December 1997
Long-Term Care Insurance: To Buy or Not To Buy, That is the Question Who Poisoned the Children? Stings and Strings: One Couple's Struggle with a Health Plan's Gatekeepers Qui Tam: "Whistle-Blower" Lawsuits Recover Government Health Care Dollars Product Recalls Outrage: The "Benefits" of Sterility-Causing Chemicals in the Workplace?
Volume 13, Number 11, November 1997
Stadol -- User Beware FTC Consumer Alert; Paunch Lines: Weight Loss Claims Are No Joke for Dieters FDA Alerts: The Stimulator; Home-Use Test Kits First, Do Nothing: Harvard Docs Announce "HMO Black" Product Recalls Managed Care: Doctors' Perspectives Outrage: Columbia/HCA's Response to a Patient's Death: "You Know, We All Are Going to Die"
Volume 13, Number 10, October 1997
Experts Urge Steps to Stem Antibiotic Resistance Budget Balancing: Medicare Savings, Medicaid Savings, and Other Shenanigans Prescription for Trouble If you Thought Our Health Care System Was Doing O.K., Note Some Contributions from Our Readers Product Recalls Outrage: "Whistle-Blower" Lawsuits Continue to Recover Millions of Health Care Dollars for the Government
Volume 13, Number 9, September 1997
HMO's Arbitration Process Provides Delay, Not Justice The HMO That Ate the High School Managed Care vs. Medical Care Protecting the Corporate Bottom Line: The Narrow Therapeutic Index (NTI) Drug Scam Health Risks of the Internet Product Recalls Outrage: AMASCAM
Volume 13, Number 8, August 1997
Health Care, Will Care Be There? The Politics of Mammography Abnormal Moles Found to Increase Risk for Melanoma Hormones: Correction and Additions Product Recalls Outrage: Booze, Pool and (??) School
Volume 13, Number 7, July 1997
Physicians Disciplined for Sex-Related Offenses Long Term Care: Who Pays? The New Laws Doctor-Run HMOs Product Recalls Outrage: Another Insurance Company Story
Volume 13, Number 6, June 1997
Sometimes Mother Nature Knows Best Snapshots of Our Health Care System Physician-Induced Hospitalization Drugs: Over-the-Counter and On the Street Product Recalls Outrage: Halt 'Unethical' HIV Experiments Abroad Public Citizen Exhorts HHS Head Shalala
Volume 13, Number 5, May 1997
Ranking of State Medical Licensing Boards -- 1996 Growing Number of Investigations Focus on Questionable Practices by Columbia/HCA Health Care: Coping with Terminal Illness: A Personal Perspective Product Recalls Medigap Insurance: Consumer Choice, Consumer Dilemma Outrage: Idaho: Dangerous Delays in Doctor Discipline
Volume 13, Number 4, April 1997
For-Profit Hospitals Costlier, Less Efficient and Spend Less on Patient Care Qui-Tam Lawsuits Recover Millions of Health Care Dollars for the Government Study Finds High Incidence of Serious Errors in Hospitals Frequently Asked Questions About Health Care Product Recalls Diversity in Doctors Providing Quality and Accessible Care for All Birth Control Pills and Emergency Contraception Outrage: Another Chicken Guarding Another Group of Foxes
Volume 13, Number 3, March 1997
Annotation: Patients on the Auction Block HMO: Managed or Mangled? Product Recalls Mergers, Buyouts: A Tale of Three Cities Pet Cemetery? Outrage: The Health Insurance Industry's Dirty Little Secret
Volume 13, Number 2, February 1997
License to Steal: Why Fraud Plagues America's Health Care System Michigan Orders Golden Rule to Issue Refunds A Tragic Insulin Overdose Diabetes: Insurance Coverage The Changing Ways of the HMO Industry: Staff-and Group-Model HMOs Are Finding It Harder to Compete Medical Discipline: Shroud of Secrecy Welcome to Managed Caring® Median Income for Doctors Hits $160,000 in 1995 Consumer Product Safety Alert Food Labeling: Consumer Alert Outrage: California HMO Fined $500,000 for Failing to Refer Patient to Specialist
Volume 13, Number 1, January 1997
Book Review: How HMOs Are Destroying Medical Trust Do Not Ask for Whom the HMOs Merge... Drug Recalls Health Letter Indexes: Volume Index 1995 and 1996; Cumulative Subject Index Outrage: There are Few Willing to Fight the Rampaging HMO Monsters
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