Health Care Reform: The Health Bill is Scary
An editorial was published this week in the Wall Street Journal from US Senator Thomas Colburn a Family Practitioner and OBGYN of…
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DC City Council Holds Hearings on Area Physicians Relationships with…
The District of Columbia City Council Committee on Health last month held a hearing regarding various health care related issues.…
Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Media – A Bigger Target for Trial…
The use of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and its side effects is once again making its rounds in the news papers and…
Researchers vs. Plaintiff Witnesses – The Credibility Gap
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education focuses on an Ex-Merck Spokesman Pointing the Finger at Paid Consultants in…
Northwestern University Discloses Financial Interests of Faculty
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine recently agreed to disclose financial relationships between faculty and drug…
GSK Discloses Payments to Physicians
Following in the footsteps of companies such as Merck and Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline recently published a list of fees paid…
International Society for Medical Publication Professionals – Good…
The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) recently published a revised Good Publication Practice…
Health Care Reform: Kohl-Durbin Amendment Ban’s Data Mining
Last week, Senators Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced an amendment to the Senate health care bill that would…
U.S. versus Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dismissed by US Court of Appeals
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit this week issued a decision that restricts the use of the federal False Claims…
PhRMA Ads Seven New Members
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures Association (PhRMA) have added seven new member companies, helping to further…