Here's a nice roundup on the PhRMA Code (links to PDF download), from PhRMA. And the graphics are really nice, too. (Thanks to Debra for the pointer!)

From a press release: ...

From the Washington Post: Cleveland Clinic to Tighten Its Disclosure Policies. It sounds like all the bad press the clinic received last year over ties its doctors had with companies that make the products and procedures it was testing prompted...

Remember the writeup of the plenary session at the Alliance for CME meeting this month in San Francisco, where I was waiting for speaker R. Van Harrison, PhD, to post his slides because there was just too much information to try to write it all...

A reader recently asked for the specific regulation that would preclude a pharma company from paying directly for breakfast at a CME meeting. I gave her my thoughts, but if anyone has a definitive rule, guideline, or regulation that specifically...

According to this press release, it sounds like medical centers are still struggling with finding effective policies about disclosing conflicts of interest (here's a link to the article about the study in the February 1006 edition of Academic...

According to this article, up to 150 people fell ill at a fundraiser held while people were at the Drake Hotel attending an American Medical Association meeting. Current theory is that a virus is to blame...

The Eli Lilly $36 million settlement for illegally promoting Evista caused this guy to ask: "Why do the FDA and the Justice Department care so much about stopping the distribution of truthful scientific information?" This editorial is a great read...

This editorial in USA Today by Ken Johnson, PhRMA's senior vice president is a strong comeback to the ...

According to this article on AllAfrica.com, Uganda Martyrs University has begun a program that uses information communication technology to provide CME for rural health workers. From the article...