IN 2010 I wrote about WebMD:
Sunday, February 28, 2010
WebMD Depression Screening Test, Eli Lilly & Web MD investigated by Senator Grassley, Pharma, Pharma, Pharma!
The depression screening ad and "test" brought to you by Eli Lilly, makers of Cymbalta, Prozac, Zyprexa et al, has come into discussion once again by Senator Grassley, ranking Republican on the US Senate Finance Committee who has demanded transparency from the APA, NAMI, Joseph Biederman and Harvard, Charles Nemeroff, just to name a few.
From the WSJ:
"Sen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa) is investigating ties between the pharmaceutical industry and WebMD Health Corp. (WBMD) after learning WedMD is running an advertisement on television that encourages people to take a depression-screening test sponsored by Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY).Grassley wants WedMD, a popular resource for medical information online, to provide detailed information about its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. In a letter to the chief executive of WebMD dated Thursday, Grassley said WebMD is seen as an independent, objective medical resource and the sponsorship from Eli Lilly raises questions about WebMD's "independence."-WSJ
"Isn't it interesting that many doctors tell patients not to rely on the Internet for information, yet are directly influenced by Pharma reps, and the industry in general? The doctors often give patients a questionnaire to answer on how they are feeling (psychiatric topics) and many times these questionnaires/tests are printed by Shire, Lilly and the rest.If you are truly going to take your health into your own hands, the best thing you can do is research before making a decision, and yes, that means read the Internet for stories like these, read the abstracts that are so-called peer reviewed, research the authors, and read the fine print....and you'll end up with the truth that the pharmaceutical industry does not want you to know. The industry is a billion dollar marketing campaign, directed at YOU for a profit, that's the real truth.-- soulful sepulcher 2010" ---
I've recently been writing about Organized Wisdom which is according to wikipedia:
"OrganizedWisdom.com is a human-powered search service for health (or human search engine) launched in alpha test in October 2006 by Steven H. Krein and Unity Stoakes. As of July 2008, the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines like Google, as well as other directory sites like DMOZ and Yahoo by tracking and building hand-crafted result sets for many of the currently popular health search terms."
OrganizedWisdom Health employs human editors to review websites and write WisdomCards (or search engine results pages) that include text listings, as well as other media, such as photos and video. Each OrganizedWisdom WisdomCard includes links to the top five sites, as well as other categorized information, and additional web pages.[3] The company also pays freelance health guides to create WisdomCards in the company's Guide Program - the pages are approved by a full time staff member prior to appearing in the main index.[4]
OrganizedWisdom's approach is similar to Mahalo.com's strategy, except that OrganizedWisdom focuses exclusively on health related search terms and employs physician reviewers into its training and review process."
OrganizedWisdom has over 10,000 WisdomCards in over 50 health categories currently in its WisdomCard Library.
Ownership and fundingInvestors in OrganizedWisdom.com include ETF Venture Funds; Esther Dyson; Linda Holliday; Roger Ehrenberg; and Don Middleberg, among other strategic angels."-wikipedia
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I was reading the #organizedwisdom Twitter hashtag today and found someone heartily defending Organized Wisdom : Julie Bohlen via (my tweet)
have u disclosed you are Senior Vice President of Emedicine.com Inc @ J_Bohlen #organizedwisdom
Julie Bohlen
Bio
Health content professional with MBA in heathcare management. Sharing quality health resources and news. On executive team at OrganizedWisdom.
Julie Bohlen MBA, ELS:
"BACKGROUND
Julie Bohlen MBA, ELS serves as Senior Vice President of Emedicine.com Inc. Ms. Bohlen has been with eMedicine since its inception. Her responsibilities include training and management of pharmacy, project, and copy editors; training of production staff; and project management of eMedicine’s consumer health site (www.emedicinehealth.com), second-generation publishing software development, publishing and update processes, content development processes, and various aspects.."
eMedicine :
"eMedicine.com, Inc. operates a consumer health Website to provide point of care medical reference to physicians and other healthcare professionals. The company offers Clinical Knowledge Base, which contains articles on diseases and disorders; multimedia files; and repository of medical education credits for physicians, nurses, and optometrists. It also provides professional and institutional subscriptions via its subscription site, www.iMedicine.com. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska with an additional office in New York, New York. As of January 17, 2006, eMedicine.com, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of WebMD Health Corp."
Organized Wisdom Medical Review Board
Did you say WebMD?
2010-WebMD ties to Eli Lilly. (maker of Prozac, Cymbalta Zyprexa etc)
This is a classic connect the dots to pharma dollars if I ever saw one.
The fact that Organized Wisdom hosts pharmaceutical adverts on their site alongside "Wisdom Cards" and so-called experts and doctors, nurse, bloggers and without their knowledge or signing up...is the reason why I dumped the site and became diligent in requesting my removal from their feed connection into Google.
The adverts were the Big Red Flag and the defense from the Organized Wisdom insiders was another: most people do not battle and defend something without a vested reason.
Mine is obvious as a reader of this blog will know, pharmaceuticals such as Zyprexa, Seroquel, Abilify, and more have done body harm and permanent damage to my youngest daughter who is now living a life that is less than quality as a result.
Every day, I feel the pain and it's as if I have to breathe life into her over and over again, I take her on drives and she eats ice cream.
I have no place in my life for pharmaceutical backed companies such as Organized Wisdom, Wellsphere and others being part of my life or linking to my posts to make a buck.
AS I said in one of my posts, "I say NO to Organized Wisdom". (and WebMD and the rest!) I have personal integrity and refuse to be associated with any advertising or company with my words on my blog that takes income no matter how indirectly, because in the end they are ALL connected.
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