US Drug Prescription Drug Sales Growth Comes to a Screeching Halt
According to IMS Health, the growth rate for prescription drugs slowed to 1.3 percent in 2008, to $291 billion. …
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Minnesota Data Mining Restrictions Advance
Minnesota was once well known for its home town company, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), which grew into one of the…
FDA: Don’t Leak This……Don’t Leak This
Do do do do….do do do do don’t leak this… this may sound like a line from the MC Hammer 1990 music hit U Can’t Touch This. …
JAMA Editor: Calls Critic “A Nobody and a Nothing”
Remember how in high school, we would put each other down, and make rude comments about each other. As we got older, we…
Conflict of Interest: Why Research and Government Need the Private Sector
This weekend, there are two major editorials providing an alternate perspective on research and conflict of interest. The…
Health Care Reform: Obama Announces Key FDA Appointments: Hamburg and…
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama announced the appointments of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as Commissioner of the…
Medical Journals: Hierarchy of Purity
This week in Burrells Reports Peter Pitts executive director of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and Public…
Massachusetts Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacture’s Code of…
After receiving input from over one hundred organizations, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (the…
Medical Device Safety Act: Congress Re-Introduces with Renewed Vigor
The day after the US Supreme Court ruled against Wyeth in an FDA pre-emption case. Congress has gotten in the act to level…
HHS-OIG Prosecuting Spine Surgeons in Kick Back Cases
In a change of course, the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced to The New York Times that…