New Jersey AG Requires Device Company Synthes to Disclose Financial Ties to…
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced an agreement with medical device maker Synthes Inc. that requires the…
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Graduate Medical Education: Surgery Departments Benefit from Commercial…
A recently published article in the American Surgeon 2009;75:395-400 titled “Industry Support of Graduate Medical…
CME: Commercially Supported Medical Education Benefits Those Who Need it…
According to a recent report the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) and the Coalition for Healthcare…
FDA: Standards Need to Be Maintained
Thomas Stossel, MD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard presents a rebuttal in Forbes (How to Maintain FDA Standards) to a…
FDA: Consider Faster Approval for Cancer Medications
Richard Epstein, PhD, Economist from the University of Chicago in the Wall Street Journal reviews the importance of off-label…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Senate Finance Committee Grassley-Baucus…
Senators Baucus (D-MT) and Grassley (R-IA) released their outline for Healthcare Reform (Transforming the Health Care…
Media: Swine Flu – The Tale of Chicken Little
For those who don’t remember, after being hit in the head by an acorn Chicken Little went from town to town telling everyone he…
IOM Report on Conflict of Interest: Coalition for Healthcare Communication…
The recent Institute of Medicine: Conflict of Interest in Medical, Research, Education and Practice report has brought about…
ACCME: New Jersey State Medical Society Asks for Suspension of Fee…
The AMA House of Delegates at their annual meeting June 13th – 17th in Chicago will be debating important issues in medicine…
Peeling the Onion, Cardiologist Look at COI
This week theheart.org, Peeling the onion: Is more conflict of interest disclosure getting us closer to the truth? Reviews…