Policy & Medicine - Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Issues

 Non product specific, non accredited education programs focusing on disease state awareness are one of the most recent additions…

During last month’s Joint Meeting of the Anesthetic and Life Drugs Advisory Committee (ALSDAC) & Drug Safety and Risk…

 Howard Brody, MD, Ph.D., a family physician and self described medical ethicists, recently wrote an article in the Annals of…

 Recently, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) called on Congress to create extra incentives for medical device makers to tackle rare…

 This weekend the Massachusetts legislature passed an economic stimulus package that failed to include a repeal of the…

Last night, I read an interesting account by a local Massachusetts physician Kate Atkinson, MD on the effect the Massachusetts…

A recent article in MM&M highlighted how warning letters (found here) sent by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)…

While the percentage of commercial support for continuing medical education (CME) has continued to drastically drop over the past…

In an attempt to address the current challenges facing the education of physicians in the fast pace and increasingly complex field…

 According to the Rx Compliance Report, “federal prosecutors are reporting that the pace of new qui tam filings (whistle blower…