Patient Access to Medical Innovation Act Introduced
U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) introduced the bipartisan Patient Access to Medical Innovation Act (S. 1865) to get innovative…
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November 2011
Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education and Research Act of 2011
This past summer, freshman Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education and…
Draft Guide to Vermont’s Prescribed Products Gift Ban and Disclosure Law…
The “legality principle” is the fundamental legal ideal that requires all law to be clear, ascertainable and non-retrospective. …
J&J Scios Criminal Settlement
Recently, Scios Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of the Food, Drug and…
Continuing Medical Education: The Link Between Physician Learning and…
A recent article in the Journal of the AAMC: Academic Medicine, noted that in the past century, we have “seen…
FDA Innovation Pathway and Extension of Comment Period on Medical Device…
Over the past year or so, there has been a tremendous amount of attention on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Thomas Stossel Addressed American College of Surgeons: Where Has All this…
Thomas P. Stossel, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, director of translational medicine at Brigham and Women’s…
DOJ Outlines Balance between Encouragement and Enforcement in Healthcare…
With the announcement of a recent settlement between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline for the drug…
CME Coalition Announces Code of Conduct
The CME Coalition announced the adoption of the CME Code of Conduct, a ten-point list designed to bring clarity to the rules…
Pharmacy Benefit Managers Proposal to Super Committee: Cut Everyone but Us
In an effort to deflect cost cutting heat from PBM's last month, Mark Meritt, President & CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care…