Here's an editorial by Jerome P. Kassirer from yesterday's Boston Globe that points to meetings specifically as being one of pharma's media of influence over physicians. He uses the recent $185 million class action lawsuit against Bristol-Myers...
In case you're not sure how well-prepared healthcare workers feel when it comes to a possible avian flu pandemic, this survey of primary care physicians by Pri-Med Research should eliminate any doubts...
On Friday, Abbott Laboratories was suspended from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry for at least six months for violating the ABPI Code of Practice. According to this article in the Financial Times, the company got in trouble...
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...