Uncategorized Conflict of Interest Reporting Improves Among IRB Members According to JAMA… Thomas Sullivan Jul 16, 2015 0 A study published in JAMA this month looked into the frequency of industry relationships among members of Institutional Review…
FDA FDA Communication Regulations Hurt Competition Thomas Sullivan Jul 15, 2015 0 We previously reported on Amarin’s lawsuit against the FDA, arguing that its restrictive interpretations of off-label speech would…
CMS Open Payments 2014 Data Highlights Thomas Sullivan Jul 14, 2015 0 The 2014 Open Payments database covers 11.41 million transactions between manufacturers and covered recipients (physicians and…
Uncategorized Novartis in the News: Blockbuster Heart Failure Drug Entresto Approved,… Thomas Sullivan Jul 13, 2015 0 Novartis has been in the news a fair amount recently—both for good and bad reasons. Starting with the good, the company’s heart…
Congress House of Representatives Approves 21st Century Cures Act 344-77 Thomas Sullivan Jul 10, 2015 0 The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, by a vote of 344-77. The bill…
Open Payments Here We Go Again: Open Payments Round 2, and Planning For Disclosure, by… Thomas Sullivan Jul 10, 2015 0 Seth Whitelaw is President and CEO of Whitelaw Compliance Group, LLC. On the first of July, the Centers for Medicare and…
FDA PatientsLikeMe Teams With FDA To Explore Patient-Reported Adverse Events Thomas Sullivan Jul 9, 2015 0 During last month's DIA Annual meeting in Washington, D.C., online patient community PatientsLikeMe announced a research…
Uncategorized “Quality” Measures Update Thomas Sullivan Jul 9, 2015 0 According to CMS, more than 460,000 of the 1.25 million eligible Medicare providers did not meet deadlines to submit data for the…
DOJ AstraZeneca and Cephalon Agree to Pay $46.5 Million and $7.5 Million,… Thomas Sullivan Jul 8, 2015 0 The Department of Justice announced recently that AstraZeneca agreed to pay the United States and participating states a…
CME Hotel Worker Union Protests Industry-Funded CME Soon After Blacklisted… Thomas Sullivan Jul 8, 2015 1 Source: Unite Here! After calling for boycotts of multiple medical meetings in…