March 2016

The Aveo Fraud

The Aveo Fraud By Leonard Zwelling https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/03/29/sec-charges-biotech-aveo-with-misleading-investors/yGs9lcKVl8i2NlcoolH72L/story.html https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2016/comp-pr2016-59.pdf https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-59.html        The article from the Boston Globe  and the SEC release summarize the 30-page document released by the federal court in Massachusetts. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against Aveo and three of its executives for fraud in not telling investors about the request …

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EXTRA: Close To A Whitewash

Close To A Whitewash By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/DePinho-s-big-fight-7182843.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/DePinho-s-big-fight-7182843.php?t=b8a62a8186438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium          I am five time zones from you as I write this. I didn’t get on the Chronicle web site until 11 PM your time on Sunday when I read the above article. I am sure many of you have already read it.          I have …

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Cost, Quality, Value and Malarkey

Cost, Quality, Value and Malarkey By Leonard Zwelling          M. Gregg Bloche, a physician and attorney from Georegtown, has written a superb opinion piece in the March 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine entitled “Scandal as a Sentinel Event—Recognizing Hidden Cost-Quality Trade-offs.” Here’s the link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1502629          In the piece he discusses …

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Making American Medicine (and MD Anderson) Great Again

Making American Medicine (and MD Anderson) Great Again By Leonard Zwelling          Why has Donald Trump so captured a significant proportion of the American electorate?          Both he and his hats claim to be able to Make America Great Again.          But Hillary Clinton has this right. America is great and always has been. And …

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Obama Going to Cuba But Not To Scalia’s or Nancy Reagan’s Funeral

Obama Going to Cuba But Not To Scalia’s or Nancy Reagan’s Funeral By Leonard Zwelling          Isn’t this the perfect metaphor for the entire Obama Presidency?          One of the most distinguished jurists of the last 50 years and the longest serving member of the Supreme Court dies and the President does not attend his …

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Is Donald Trump Just the Latest Incarnation of the German American Bund?

Is Donald Trump Just the Latest Incarnation of the German American Bund? By Leonard Zwelling          I suspect I am beginning to sound like quite an alarmist to my regular readers, a Johnny One Note in a distinctly minor key.          Donald J. Trump scares the hell out of me.          First, he is basically …

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