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POGO in the News - Public Health
Despite Obama's Lofty Words, Scientific Integrity Rules Are Lagging, By Dan Froomkin, The Huffington Post, July 9, 2010
NIH proposes new funding rules to prevent conflicts of interest, By Rob Stein, The Washington Post, May 21, 2010
NIH researchers are up-front about their support from drug companies, right? Wrong!, By S. L. Baker, Natural News.com, April 1, 2010
NIH Transparency: Research Over Bureaucracy, By Thomas Sullivan, Policy and Medicine, March 24, 2010
Should NIH-Funded Researchers Be Required to Publicly Reveal Conflicts?, By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science.com, March 16, 2010
NIH Should Disclose Financial Conflicts: Watchdog, By Ed Silverman, Pharmalot.com, March 16, 2010
2009: Turmoil Erupts at CDRH, By James G. Dickinson, Medical Device Link.Com, December 1, 2009
Swine Flu Frustrations: Too Little Vaccine, Too Many Scare Tactics, By Deborah Kotz, US News & World Report, October 23, 2009
Daniel Schultz Resigns Amid CDRH Controversies, By James G. Dickinson, Medical Device Link.com, October 1, 2009
Firm Aggressively Campaigned for Device, By Dan Eggen and Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post, September 26, 2009
Fast-Tracked Medical Device Review Will Take Two Years, By Jane Akre, InjuryBoard.com, September 25, 2009
U.S. FDA seeks outside review of device approvals, By Susan Heavey, Reuters, September 23, 2009
Preparing For A Flu Pandemic, By Brian Thompson, KPR (National Public Radio), August 31, 2009
You can't hurry a flu vaccine, By Richard Van Noorden, Nature.com, August 27, 2009
Flu vaccine details demanded from feds, By Bill Lambrecht, St. Louis Post Dispatch, On-line, August 26, 2009
FDA changes afoot?, By Shawn Rhea, Modern Healthcare (by subscription only), August 17, 2009
U.S. FDA device chief leaves, changes seen, By Susan Heavey, Reuters, August 11, 2009
Safety concerns over life sustaining medical devices, , WQAD.com, July 8, 2009
FDA Head to Look at Medical Device Safety, , NEWSInferno.com, June 17, 2009
Watchdog Group Wants Probe in Syringe Case, By Christina Jewett, ProPublica & Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune, June 8, 2009
Report: FDA Dropped Early Medical Device Lab Inspections, , Medical Report Outsourcing (Blog), June 8, 2009
A Covertly Drops Inspection of Medical Device Labs, By David Gutierrez, Natural News, May 30, 2009
Health First-Dangerous Devices, By Leslie Toldo, Health and Medical News from ABC12.com, May 20, 2009
HealthFirst-Dangerous Devices, By Leslie Toldo, ABC12.com, May 20, 2009
Is more regulation the answer?, By Rob Waters, Raleigh News Observer, March 1, 2009
FDA ignored debris in syringes, By Sarah Avery & Sabina Vollmer, Raleigh News & Observer, February 25, 2009
Feds searching for CEO in case of tainted syringes, By Mike Baker, Associated Press, February 24, 2009
Lack of GLP Inspections Leads to Hasty Device Approvals, By Renee Frojo, Device & Diagnostic Letter, February 23, 2009
FDA All But Stopped Inspecting Labs That Test Medical Devices, , FDA Week, February 20, 2009
Watchdog Says FDA Abandoned Safety Measure, By Lisa LaMotta, Forbes Online, February 18, 2009
Watchdog Blasts FDA On Loose Test Compliance Policy, By Anna Edney, Congress Daily, February 18, 2009
Report: FDA scaled back enforcement at labs, By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press; ABC News , February 18, 2009
FDA Not Enforcing Medical Device Testing Standards, By Jared Favole, DowJones Newswires, February 18, 2009
Internal FDA Documents Reveal Agency Stopped Enforcing Standards, By Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent, February 18, 2009
Watchdog: FDA decision under Bush put patients in danger, By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, February 18, 2009
Activists decry paucity of US FDA device checks, By Susan Heavey, Reuters, February 18, 2009
Department of beams in the eye, By Meredith Wadman, Nature, October 23, 2008
NIH Punished Scientist Who Had Called for Open Records, By Richard Monastersky, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 22, 2008
NIH Scolded Employee For Flagging Conflicts, By Ed Silverman, Pharmalot, October 22, 2008
Food and Drug Safety on the Cheap: It Can’t Be Done , By POGO's Ned Feder, Staff Scientist, The Hill , July 22, 2008
Commentary: Pandemic flu vaccine program needs help, By POGO's Ned Feder, Federal Times, June 1, 2008
Report faults NIH on conflicts, By Bob Grant, The Scientist Blog, January 18, 2008
HHS Watchdog to Recheck Ethics Cases, By Rita Beamish, Associated Press, Forbes Magazine, March 30, 2007
HHS Watchdog to Re-Check Ethics Cases, By Rita Beamish, USA Today, Associated Press, March 29, 2007
Disclosure for Extramural NIH Researchers?, Letter to the Editor by POGO's Ned Feder, The Scientist , February 1, 2007
Feds Charge Alzheimer's Researcher, By Rita Beamish, Associated Press, CBS News, December 5, 2006
Monday Edition: Fogger Fires, Bug Bomb Blazes, , Poynteronline, May 3, 2004
A Medical Reseacher Pays For Doubling Industry Claim, By Cynthia Crossen, The Wall Street Journal, January 3, 2001
A Cloud of Controversy: After Misfire, EPA Aims at Bug Bombs, By Cindy Skrzycki, The Washington Post, October 1, 1999
