More on CME and COI

From Health Care Renewal: GSK Funds Talks About Screening Pregnant Women for Herpes. A snip:

The Wall Street Journal just published an article by David Armstrong about how continuing medical education (CME) often seems to serve the interests of its commercial sponsors. The focus of the article was on how GlaxoSmithKline funds speakers who seem to favor clinical policies that just might end up increasing the use of the GSK drug valacyclovir (Valtrex) for genital herpes infections.