September 2010

Last week we wrote a commentary on a Boston Globe article that covered the start up of a continuing medical education publishing…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that drug maker Forest Laboratories, Inc. has pleading guilty to resolve criminal…

A recent article in PLoS Medicine examined the role ghostwriting played in recent litigation against Wyeth, where more than 14,000…

With much of the United States suffering from shortages of primary care physicians, especially in rural regions, nurse…

This summer, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched “The Bad Ad Program,” which is designed to educate health care…

The growing criticism of industry funded continuing medical education (CME) over the past several years has had a number of…

With the number of drug and devices companies who disclose payments to physicians for a variety of activities (education,…

In October 2009, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommended a new “Uniform Format for Disclosure…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an opportunity for the public to comment on the Experimental Study of Format…

Over the past several years, and even more recently, academic medical centers have begun to “tighten restrictions on doctors…