CME New Studies Show Continuing Medical Education Improves Health Care Provider… Thomas Sullivan Mar 13, 2012 1 Those of us in the continuing medical education (CME) community have seen a growing movement over the past several years to…
Conflict of Interest Drug and Drug-Related Supply Promotion by Pharmaceutical Company… Thomas Sullivan Mar 12, 2012 0 In 2010, the Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") proposed a regulation that would impose limits on the promotion of drug and…
FDA FDA: Guidance for Sponsors, Investigators, and Institutional Review Boards Thomas Sullivan Mar 9, 2012 0 Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a new Clinical Trials Guidance Document. The guidance…
State Policy Physician Payment Sunshine: Massachusetts Physician Payments Takes Two… Thomas Sullivan Mar 8, 2012 1 As we have covered numerous times on this blog, in 2009, the State of Massachusetts enacted the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical and…
Uncategorized European Society of Cardiology White Paper on Relations between… Thomas Sullivan Mar 7, 2012 0 The Europeans are now joining the chorus for principled relationships with industry. The European Society of Cardiology…
Drug Shortages FDA Guidance Notification of Prescription Drug or Biologic Product Drug… Thomas Sullivan Mar 6, 2012 2 There have been significant media coverage and government oversight surrounding drug shortages over the past few months. On…
International International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufactures and Associations –… Thomas Sullivan Mar 5, 2012 0 The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) announced an expansion of its Code of…
Editorials Physician Payment Sunshine: USA Today Editorial Author Still Hiding in the… Thomas Sullivan Mar 2, 2012 0 Now that the comment period for the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Section 6002 of the Affordable Care Act) has closed, various…
Open Payments Physician Payment Sunshine: Links to Comments to CMS Thomas Sullivan Mar 1, 2012 0 Mid-February marked the deadline for stakeholders to submit their comments on the proposed regulations from the Centers for…
Open Payments Physician Payment Sunshine: What Lurks in the Shadows of Sunshine Thomas Sullivan Mar 1, 2012 1 Dr. Henry Black, a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, recently gave a…