State Policy State Policy: Minnesota Reconsidering Physician Reporting and Gift Law Thomas Sullivan Oct 22, 2009 0 The Minnesota House of Representatives Commerce and Labor Committee, and members of the Health and Human Services Policy Committee…
FDA FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act Thomas Sullivan Oct 21, 2009 0 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave notice to the public of a Proposed Guidance Development on the Web for the Medical…
ACCME ACCME Increases their Enforcement Efforts Thomas Sullivan Oct 21, 2009 0 The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is increasing their enforcement of the current ACCME standards…
Medical Legal Medical Legal: Four Companies Settle for Reduced Medicaid Rebates Thomas Sullivan Oct 21, 2009 0 Four pharmaceutical companies announced they will pay a total of $124 million nationally as part of a major Medicaid fraud case.…
AMA Senate Debates Doc Fix Off Budget – AMA Pushes Hard for Legislation Thomas Sullivan Oct 20, 2009 0 While over 40 years ago, the American Medical Association (AMA) ‘opened it’s bid to kill Medicare,’ today they are now…
CME Extremely Low Rates of Bias Reported in Commercially Supported CME… Thomas Sullivan Oct 20, 2009 1 The American Journal of Medicine (AMJ) recently produced a critical study titled: “Low Rates of Reporting Commercial Bias by…
Physician Payment Disclosure Physician Payment Sunshine: Merck, Second Pharmaceutical Company to… Thomas Sullivan Oct 20, 2009 0 Following Eli Lilly, Merck became the second company to publish their payments to US based speakers for the Third Quarter of…
Patient Organizations Continuing Education to Prevent Infection: Collaboration to Save Lives Thomas Sullivan Oct 20, 2009 0 The potential for a loved one to suddenly be taken by cancer or heart disease is devastating. Fortunately, America prides itself…
Medical Journals Medical Journals: Extremely Low Numbers of Retractions Found in Industry… Thomas Sullivan Oct 19, 2009 0 A recent article in Nature Medicine did an “Analysis of Retractions” in medical journals and claimed that “about half of the…
Medical Journals ISMAPP Prepares To Defend Medical Writing Thomas Sullivan Oct 19, 2009 0 In response to the increase in press and US government activity regarding the integrity of medical writing, the International…