MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'collusion'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:31:59 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3699706&cid=t_272984_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FAM2Nw1RqLtc%2F Rejecting an appeal, the Federal Competition Commission voted 4 to 1 to fine the companies $11.6 million for conspiring to raise prices of meds sold to a social-services agency, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, according to this statement. The decision comes shortly after the antitrust regulator indictated new investigations may be launched into drugmakers for scheming to inflate prices (background). According to the CFC, the drugmakers engaged in monopolistic practices during public bidding organzied by the agency and, in doing so, eliminated competition, which forced the IMSS, as its known, to pay artificially high prices. Those fined include Eli Lilly, Laboratorios Cryopharma, Probiomed, Fresenius Kabi Mexico, Baxter and Laboratorios Pisa. The meds involved were insulin and injecta... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3699706 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:03:59 +0100 3699706 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3302632&cid=t_272984_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2Fa3uY5r5eQgE%2F Mexico’s antitrust watchdog fined Lilly and three Mexican drugmakers for colluding to inflate prices in government tenders for medicine. The drugmakers allegedly took turns placing winning bids to buy insulin from 2003 to 2006, eliminating competition and ensuring artificially high prices, Reuters writes. A Lilly spokeswoman denied the charges and plans to appeal. “The companies that have been fined conspired for years to make badly needed medicine artificially expensive,” commission head Eduardo Perez-Motta said in a statement. The drugmakers, as well as unit of Baxter International, were each fined $1.7 million, the maximum allowed prior to 2006, when Mexico’s competition laws were beefed up, Reuters adds. Separately, the US Department of Justice and the Securitie... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3302632 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:46:11 +0100 3302632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2637784&cid=t_272984_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVsdWWchkcao%2F The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review quotes Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele on how Congress should go about reforming health care: Having Congress reshape health care puts “the wrong people at the table,” Steele said. He said stakeholders — “doctors, lawyers, health care employees, insurance companies” — should develop a solution and present it to Congress, rather than the other way around. Steele needs to brush up on his Adam Smith: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Like I said, Jonathan Chait was on to something. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2637784 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:35:38 +0100 2637784 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1473015&cid=t_272984_150_f&fid=36939&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscientific-misconduct.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fbystander-effect-would-you-stop-for.html Local 6, a Florida TV station has been conducting a series of experiments on the bystander effect. In the latest "missing child experiment" they placed numerous posters in a mall with photographs of a missing 8 year old "Britney Begonia". Britney herself sat next to some of the signs. Hundreds of people walked past and saw the posters, but only two stopped to ask Britney anything. Many bystanders questioned later said they noticed the stange resemblance between Britney and the poster but were "fearful of getting involved."An earlier Local 6 experiment involved a fake burglar breaking into a home. See also this publication on the bystander response to a mock casualty involving arterial bleeding. The bystander effect has been extensively studied. The more people who observe an event, the les... Scientific Misconduct Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1473015 Tue, 27 May 2008 16:47:00 +0100 1473015