Bioethics Forum EssayMark Cuban’s Innovative Pharmacy: A Band-Aid on Drug PricesBillionaire Mark Cuban and physician Alex Oshmyansky recently launched the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC), an online pharmacy that sells generic prescription medicines at significantly lower prices than other sources. But the acclaim for the pharmacy may eclipse attention to the longstanding structural problems of the pharmaceutical industry and MCCPDC’s role in it.Read Mark Cuban’s Innovative Pharmacy: A Band-Aid on Drug PricesBioethics Forum EssayLet the Sun Shine into the Medical Ivory TowerIn 2012, I coauthored a case report about the successful use of dietary supplements in treating a case of male infertility in the American Family Physician. Before it was published,...Read Let the Sun Shine into the Medical Ivory TowerBioethics Forum EssayAddyi Rises AgainAddyi, a drug that made a splash when it was approved in the summer of 2015 as the first “female Viagra,” is back. Its rise, fall, and rise again is...Read Addyi Rises AgainBioethics Forum EssayFentanyl at Your Door: Who are Pain Groups Advocating For?In February, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) published a report that revealed the unsettling relationship between opioid manufacturers and pain advocacy groups. Focusing on five opioid manufacturers, Purdue, Janssen, Depomed, Insys,...Read Fentanyl at Your Door: Who are Pain Groups Advocating For?Bioethics Forum EssayMasked Marketing: Pharmaceutical Company Funding of ADHD Patient Advocacy GroupsIn 1971, the United Nations passed a resolution prohibiting its member nations from advertising psychotropic drugs to the general public. More than 40 years later, this resolution has done little...Read Masked Marketing: Pharmaceutical Company Funding of ADHD Patient Advocacy GroupsBioethics Forum EssayThe Score is EvenThree years ago, a small pharmaceutical company with a big agenda created a fake feminist group so that they could get a bad drug approved by the Food and Drug...Read The Score is EvenBioethics Forum EssayA Right to Seek Payment for One’s TissueAfter much anticipation, on April 22, HBO debuted The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a film based on Rebecca Skloot’s bestselling book, starring Oprah Winfrey. Lacks’s cells provided the foundation...Read A Right to Seek Payment for One’s TissueBioethics Forum EssayThe 21st Century Cures Act Sparks Values DebateOn December 13th, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, a bipartisan, multidimensional health research and development bill. The act allocates $4.8 billion to the National Institutes of Health...Read The 21st Century Cures Act Sparks Values DebateBioethics Forum EssayAfter the Election Bioethics Faces a Rocky RoadAcademic bioethics has never been popular with Republicans. Libertarians dislike academic bioethics because it seems too elitist and anti-free market. Religious thinkers worry it is technocratic, soulless and crassly utilitarian....Read After the Election Bioethics Faces a Rocky RoadBioethics Forum EssayTelemedicine Needs Ethical GuidelinesTelemedicine is becoming more widespread. This is care at a distance, where patient and clinician are connected by information technology that may include video, audio, and monitoring equipment linked by...Read Telemedicine Needs Ethical Guidelines
