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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act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