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Drug and Drug-Related Supply Promotion by Pharmaceutical Company…
In 2010, the Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") proposed a regulation that would impose limits on the promotion of drug and…
The Difficulty and High Costs in Creating New Medications
Over the past several years, there has been significant discussion about the difficulty pharmaceutical and medical device…
Convergence of Interest – Not Conflict of Interest
Given all the recent coverage of the proposed regulations implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Section 6002 of the…
Thomas Stossel Addressed American College of Surgeons: Where Has All this…
Thomas P. Stossel, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, director of translational medicine at Brigham and Women’s…
Patient Groups Encourage Congress to Remove Burdensome FDA Rules
Patient organizations are encouraging congress to drop burdensome conflict of interest quotas on FDA advisory panels which are…
CMS Proposed Rule: Changes to the Conditions of Participation for Long…
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a Medicare rule that considers requiring the…
Coordinated Ad Hominem Attacks on Physician-Industry Relationships in…
Recently, we saw concerted attacks on clinical guidelines committees, but interestingly, not on the science coming out of them. …
Coordinated Ad Hominem Attacks on Physician-Industry Relationships in…
Recently, we saw concerted attacks on clinical guidelines committees, but interestingly, not on the science coming out of them. …
A Hard Look at Physician-Industry Relationships and Ad Hominem Attacks by…
Arguing against science is difficult, so what we have seen lately is rather than arguing the science and eventual benefit to…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Misses Deadline – Creating…
As we have noted many times on this website, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act), which was included in the Patient…