Letters from Kohl and Grassley: CRF and Columbia — Send us Everything
This has been a tremendous week of clinical trial presentations and discussions around interventional cardiology at the…
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DC Safe RX = Unsafe RX
If you are planning your medical convention or meeting in the District of Columbia you may want to consider the following…
Physician Payment Sunshine: MedPac Prepares to Act
MedPac, a congressional advisory group, has been holding a series of meetings the last three months to suggest to Congress…
Presidential Debate 2: Candidates from Mars
"What a funny title?!" you say, but from watching the presidential debate on Tuesday night between Barak Obama and John…
Eli Lilly: Settles Down with State AG’s
Yesterday Eli Lilly settled a consumer protection lawsuit on Zyprexa, one of their psychiatric drugs, for $62 million with 32…
Letters from Grassley: Emory Professor Caught with Hands in Cookie Jar
What started as a sleepy story about a physician who had failed to report conflict of interest to Emory University has led…
Senator Grassley: Interview Provides Context
For those of us who have followed Senator’s Grassley’s interest in the pharmaceutical and device industry, there often…
Physician Payment Sunshine: Cephalon Agreement to Act
Every industry has its bad actors. In the case of pharmaceutical companies the bad actors fall into two categories; those…
Pfizer Cardiovascular: The End of an Era
Pfizer announced WSJ: Pfizer Plans to Abandon Heart-Drug Development that they are giving up on the Cardiovascular business…
Letters from Grassley: NIH Check this Out
This week Senator Grassley sent some more letters, Grassley asks NIH to account for employment of expert advisor, this time he is…