Health Care Reform: Rangel Proposes Taxing Pharmaceutical and Device…
Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY), Chairman of the Powerful House Ways and Means Committee announced that he too is working on a…
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Academic Medical Centers: Harvard to Revise their Conflict of Interest…
Harvard University is looking at a complete revision their conflict of interest policy over the next four to six…
Academic Medical Centers: AAMC-AAU Response to HHS Request for Comments
The Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) submitted a…
Health Care Reform: Obama Proposes to Give More Authority to MedPAC
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend President Obama’ speech to the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago, he did…
AMA CEJA 2009: Referred Back to CEJA by House of Delegates
The AMA House of Delegates on Monday referred the Council for Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA Report 1-A-09) Financial…
AMA CEJA 2009: Reference Committee
At the AMA meeting in Chicago on Sunday, the Reference on Constitution and Bi-laws heard testimony on the Council for Ethical…
ACCME Call for Comment 09: Responses Posted
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has posted the responses to its calls-for-comment on…
Academic Medical Centers: Emory Adopts Strict Ethics Policies
Over the past few months, a variety of academic medical schools and institutions have begun to create and ‘strengthen’ ethics…
AMA CEJA 2009: Alliance for CME – Refer Back to CEJA
The Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (The Alliance) representing over 2,500 CME professionals from medical…
AMA CEJA 2009: Council of Medical Specialty Societies Responds
In a letter to the Chairman of CEJA and the Chairman of the AMA reference committee, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies…