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You can also read their accompanying STAT article on the issue, "The perimenopause movement sells women the lie that they are ruled by their hormones" here: statnews.com/2026/03/26/per…

Listen to Patricia Bencivenga and Adriane Fugh-Berman talk about the "rise of perimenopause misinformation" on STAT's First Opinion Podcast.

Antihypertensive treatment is associated with hospitalization or death due to falls- The Lancet Primary Care thelancet.com/journals/lanpr…

Kenny Lin: New ACC/AHA statin guidelines failed to do systematic review, didn't include national internal medicine and family medicine organizations, and 12/33 on guideline panel had relevant conflicts of interest. medscape.com/viewarticle/gr…

Recent turbulence at the @US_FDA shows why PharmedOut's aptly named report "What Needs to Change at the FDA?" is especially relevant today! Read the executive summary and the report here: sites.google.com/georgetown.edu…

Jeanne Lenzer's great article on tests that make perfectly healthy people think they have Alzheimer’s. Fugh-Berman is quoted saying “These are bad tests designed to make people eligible for bad drugs.” levernews.com/the-campaign-t…

So let me get this straight… What’s in: tanning beds, flavored vapes What’s out: vaccines, anti-depressants RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists latimes.com/science/story/…

As the Sackler family worked through a plan to pay $6.5 billion to resolve their liability over Purdue Pharma’s production of addictive opioids, the epidemic hit even closer to home. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/… via @NYTimes

GLP-1 Overdoses on the Rise: Cause for Concern? medscape.com/viewarticle/gl…

Top Psychiatrists Call for a Greater Focus on Ceasing Medication nytimes.com/2026/05/01/sci… via @NYTimes

"Opioid manufacturers unethically changed what prescribers thought they knew about opioids, and changed how chronic pain was treated." Read more here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"Redefining Pain and Addiction: How Opioid Manufacturers Changed Medical Language to Foster Opioid Use" reveals the origins and impact of terms such as opiophobia and pseudoaddiction. Pharma influence on knowledge about drugs is a serious concern. tinyurl.com/rzvh4k72

PharmedOut's Caroline Renko and Adriane Fugh-Berman with collaborator Liza Vertinsky expose industry-funded #CME as unregulated promotion in latest paper, "Medicalizing Aging for Profit through Medical Education." Read more here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@Pharmed_Out @NightShiftMD @TheSGEM certainly not “evidence based care” or even remotely close to any international standard of care. The million dollar question is who receives the @OtsukaUS marketing money and “payment for completion of the clinical research” @VanIslandHealth @BCOmbudsperson @MarjoriePLC @SuzanneMcgurn

Good news on long term opioid prescribing jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Nothing for something: Marketing cancer drugs to physicians increases increases prescribing without improving mortality sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Patricia Bencivenga and A Fugh-Berman counter the narrative that women are ruled by their hormones: "Perimenopausal women are not ill," and should "fight the disempowering concept that women and their hormones must be medically controlled." statnews.com/2026/03/26/per…

GAO Report just released: FDA Advisory Committees:More Transparency Needed on Policies for Making Conflict of Interest Determinations gao.gov/products/gao-2…

"Social media influencer promotion of prescription drugs was consistently associated with misinformation, weak and outdated regulatory oversight, and audience difficulty in recognizing promotional intent when marketing was embedded in personal narratives". jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…