Academic Organizations Can Academic Departments Maintain Industry Relationships While Promoting… Thomas Sullivan Apr 5, 2010 0 Steven L. Dubovsky, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University at Buffalo, along with four other…
Academic Organizations Physician Payment Sunshine – University of Miami Reports Confluence of… Thomas Sullivan Apr 2, 2010 0 The Miami Herald reported that the University of Miami medical school has become one of the first in the country to offer an…
ACCME ACCME Update — Reporting System, Call for Comment and Provider… Thomas Sullivan Apr 2, 2010 0 The Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) recently announced that it will be opening up its Program &…
Pharmaceutical and Device Physician Payment Sunshine: Pfizer Discloses Payments to Physicians Thomas Sullivan Apr 1, 2010 0 Continuing the ongoing trend of transparency and disclosure in the pharmaceutical industry, Pfizer Inc. released its payment…
State Policy Doctors are Well Able to Tell Science From Hype – A Minnesota… Thomas Sullivan Mar 31, 2010 0 Stephen F. Hodgson, MD a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist in an editorial published in the Rochester Post-Bulletin argued that…
CME CMSS Response to IOM – Perhaps No Need for Redesigning Continuing Education… Thomas Sullivan Mar 30, 2010 1 In response to the Institute of Medicine’s recently published report titled “Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health…
Healthcare Reform The Erosion of Private Physician Practices Thomas Sullivan Mar 30, 2010 0 Just as the Obama Administration added 31 million to an already overworked and understaffed health care system, the New York Times…
Affordable Care Act Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPAC) Timelines for Implementation Thomas Sullivan Mar 29, 2010 0 Now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC) is law, there are some important dates and timelines for how this…
Medical Journals ICMJE Uniform Disclosure of Competing Interest Form Thomas Sullivan Mar 26, 2010 0 In January, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommended a new “Uniform Format…
Clinical Research JAMA: Nissen and DeAngelis on Industry Supported Clinical Trials Thomas Sullivan Mar 26, 2010 0 After the New York Times publication of Steve Nissen’s secret tape recording meetings with pharmaceutical executives the Journal…