CBI West Coast Forum on Educational Grants
Another Educational Opportunity includes the 3rd Annual West Coast Forum on Educational Grants for the Pharmaceutical, Biotech…
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PACME Spring Summit
The Pharmaceutical Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (PACME) is hosting their Spring Summit on May 7-8th at the Sofitel…
Harvard’s Ackerman Symposium on Medical Industry, Medical Education
Each year Harvard holds an Ackerman Symposium, to discuss the social issues in medicine, the topics in past years have ranged…
JAMA: AMA Laying Off 100 Employees – Running Away Advertisers
Despite a growing healthcare economy, The American Medical Association (AMA) announced they were laying off 100 workers, about…
Partners Healthcare COI Policy and the Prescription Project (Who’s calling…
According to Partners COI Policy (page 11), the Prescription Project was deeply involved in guiding the writing of the policy.…
Guidelines: APA Guidelines and their Use of Experts
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is currently updating all its practice guidelines. According to a study recently…
Pharmascolds an Official Term
Pharmascolds has been added to the American vocabulary this week according to Schott’s Vocabulary column in the New York Times.…
ACCME Commercial Support Will Continue
According to the Executive Summary of the March, 2009 Board Meeting of Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education…
Academic Medical Centers: Partners Healthcare Adopts Strict COI Policy
In an e-mail to their physicians, Partners Healthcare, which includes Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s Boston, and…
State Policy: Minnesota and Iowa Pharmaceutical “Gift” Bans Retreat,…
According to NLARX “gift” ban proposals in Minnesota (Withdrawn) and Iowa passed the senate but (Striped out of the bill in the…