2025 Shkreli Awards – Lown Institute
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- The 9th annual Shkreli Awards highlight the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare.
- Organ procurement organizations are pushing patients toward organ retrieval while they are still alive or showing signs of consciousness.
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy misuse at The Oxford Center led to a tragic death due to negligence.
- UnitedHealth Group incentivized nursing homes to keep sick residents out of hospitals, causing harm.
- Chesapeake Regional Healthcare enabled Dr. Javaid Perwaiz to perform unnecessary surgeries on women for profit.
- Georgia's 'personhood' law forced a brain-dead pregnant woman to remain on life support to save the fetus.
- Dr. Derrick Todd allegedly abused patients for over a decade, with institutions failing to act on complaints.
- Medicare loopholes led to $10 billion in spending on overpriced 'skin substitute' bandages with little benefit.
- FDA approved lab-grown blood vessels despite evidence of life-threatening risks and poor data.
- Private equity firms are compromising the integrity of clinical trial oversight by owning IRBs and trial design companies.
- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy made unsubstantiated claims linking acetaminophen to autism, later walking them back.