Healthcare Reform Health Care Reform: Obama Announces Key FDA Appointments: Hamburg and… Thomas Sullivan Mar 14, 2009 0 In his weekly address, President Barack Obama announced the appointments of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as Commissioner of the…
Uncategorized Medical Journals: Hierarchy of Purity Thomas Sullivan Mar 13, 2009 0 This week in Burrells Reports Peter Pitts executive director of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and Public…
Massachusetts Code of Conduct Massachusetts Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacture’s Code of… Thomas Sullivan Mar 11, 2009 0 After receiving input from over one hundred organizations, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (the…
Medical Legal Medical Device Safety Act: Congress Re-Introduces with Renewed Vigor Thomas Sullivan Mar 9, 2009 0 The day after the US Supreme Court ruled against Wyeth in an FDA pre-emption case. Congress has gotten in the act to level…
Medical Legal HHS-OIG Prosecuting Spine Surgeons in Kick Back Cases Thomas Sullivan Mar 8, 2009 0 In a change of course, the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced to The New York Times that…
Medical Legal Supreme Court: Decision on Wyeth vs. Levine Opens Legal Flood Gates Thomas Sullivan Mar 4, 2009 0 In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court in Wyeth vs. Levine, struck down the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pre-emption…
Congress Letters From Grassley: Pfizer turn over Harvard Records Thomas Sullivan Mar 4, 2009 0 The New York Times (The Times) yesterday published two articles on Harvard and their changes to conflict of interest…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act Physician Payment Sunshine Act: AAFP Provides Clarification Thomas Sullivan Mar 3, 2009 0 Recently we wrote about statements made by AAFP’s President Ted Epperly, MD concerning the Physician Payment Sunshine Act of…
Healthcare Reform Health Care Reform: White House Announces Team of Seblius and DeParle Thomas Sullivan Mar 2, 2009 0 President Barack Obama has officially announced the nomination of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Health and Human Services…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act Physician Payment Sunshine Act: MedPAC Sends Formal Recommendations to… Thomas Sullivan Mar 2, 2009 0 “Comprehensive information about physicians’ financial relationships with drug and device manufacturers would help…