PharmaGossip adds Tawnya and Allison to the All-Pharma cheerleading squad, which also features Trisha. We’re compiling a full list of the All-Pharma squad and will post it soon.

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The Schwitzer health news blog points out:
A study in Health Affairs shows that more than half of the nation’s uninsured are ineligible for public programs such as Medicaid but do not have enough resources to purchase coverage themselves.
In a Health Affairs news release, lead author Lisa Dubay, now a research scientist at the Johns […]

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The hits just keep on coming for Pfizer.
The New York law firm Schoengold Sporn Laitman & Lometti has announced a class action lawsuit against the drug kingpin for making materially false and misleading statements to inflate the value of Pfizer stock. Summarized by Pharmagossip:
The complaint was filed on behalf of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association Local […]

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From a Mother Jones interview with Ohio senator-elect Sherrod Brown:
MJ: What do you want to do on the Health and Education Committee?
SB: FDA reform — wrestling the agency away from drug company influence. In my 14 years in the House, I’ve seen a very good agency, the Food and Drug administration — one of the […]

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Healthbolt has a nice post reminding us of the importance of educating ourselves about the prescription medications we take. Excerpt:
As good consumers, we need to make sure that we know what’s going on in our own prescription world. According to a representative from the American College of Physicians Foundation, medication error is the most […]

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Ezra Klein has a great post explaining why drugs purchased through the Veterans Administration are cheaper than those purchased by Medicare patients. He concludes with these eye-opening facts:
in 2003, The New England Journal of Medicine found the “socialized” VA better on all 11 metrics of care than fee-for-service Medicare …The National Committee for Quality Assurance, […]

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Judy Aron at Consent of the Governed calls our attention to a comprehensive report from the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJ PIRG) entitled “Turning Medicine Into Snake Oil: How Pharmaceutical Marketers Put Patients At Risk.”
We encourage you to check it out.

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CanadaDrugTalk.com posts this quote from David MacKay, an international pharmacy expert and consultant:
The bottom line in 2007 is that enrollment costs are going up substantially, drug coverage is declining and the brand name coverage in the doughnut hole is being eliminated… Medicare D is an insurance program, not a benefit. As consumption increases, so too […]

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Not to be outdone by the just-profiled Trisha, Diana Chiafair aims to be fairest pharma rep of them all. From, appropriately enough, Fleshbot:
21-year-old Florida pharmaceutical rep Diana Chiafair was named Miss FHM 2006 this week … “I was shocked when I found out I won … The voting closed at midnight and I got […]

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Trisha’s a pharmaceutical sales rep who’s been cheering for the Kansas City Chiefs for five years.
We’re sure she’s a wonderful person, but she is also a pawn in Big Pharma’s scheme to boost profits by any means necessary. Read more about this business practice here.

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