July 2009

  Recently the Vermont Legislature passed their “Prescription Drug Marketing Law” This law bans certain gifts and requires…

    Today in Nature Medicine is a news story titled:  Conflict of Interest Rules Seen by Some as Too…

With the Senate Finance Committee still trying to deliberate in a ‘bi-partisan’ fashion to create a health care reform bill,…

While it seemed like a new President of the United States was going to have the biggest impact on health care reform, the new…

  Senators Chuck Grassley and Herb Kohl today weighed in on transparency at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urging…

The Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) recently published their responses to the ACCME and AMA CEJA.…

  Keeping up with the growing trend of publications on Physician-Industry relations, an endocrinologist from the University…

Senator Chuck Grassley has asked eight leading medical journals to describe their policies and practices regarding ghostwriting.…

According to the Rutland Herald and IMS Health,  on Monday, June 29, 2009, the United States Supreme Court denied granting…

On July 1st the Massachusetts and Vermont’s gift bans and registry of payments to physicians came into effect.  The Wall…