NIH Transparency: Grassley and Kohl Weigh In
Senators Chuck Grassley and Herb Kohl today weighed in on transparency at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urging…
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SACME Posts Responses to ACCME and CEJA
The Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) recently published their responses to the ACCME and AMA CEJA.…
The Physician-Industry Relationship: Lessons from the Minnesota Experience
Keeping up with the growing trend of publications on Physician-Industry relations, an endocrinologist from the University…
Letters from Grassley: Chasing Journals Ghosts Writers
Senator Chuck Grassley has asked eight leading medical journals to describe their policies and practices regarding ghostwriting.…
Data Mining: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear IMS Appeal of New Hampshire Law
According to the Rutland Herald and IMS Health, on Monday, June 29, 2009, the United States Supreme Court denied granting…
Massachusetts Code of Conduct: Massachusetts and Vermont’s Gift Ban and…
On July 1st the Massachusetts and Vermont’s gift bans and registry of payments to physicians came into effect.
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IOM: Comparative Effectivenes Recommendations – Top Down Bureaucracy at Its…
In the midst of all the chaos surrounding the economic downfall, Americans overlooked a key component of the American…
JAMA: ACC President Rebuts — JAMA Call for Banning Industry…
Total separation between the profession of medicine and the drug and device industry would cause irreparable harm to our patients…
Health Care Reform: Status Update – Watching the Time
Although most measurements of success for a US President have rested solely on economic factors, the legacy of President Obama…
Health Care Reform: Obama, AARP and PhRMA Offer Help to Seniors
With comprehensive health care legislation only being “discussed” on the House side, and with the Senate Finance Committee yet to…