Conflict of Interest FDA Official Cleared of Conflict Allegations in Heparin Contamination Case Thomas Sullivan Feb 8, 2010 0 Last week Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA was cleared of a conflict of interest…
CME Continuing Medical Education: Bringing Evidence Based Medicine to Patients Thomas Sullivan Feb 5, 2010 2 A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), titled “Continuing Medical Education: Let the…
Medical Journals Ghost Writing: Crisis or Fact of Life Thomas Sullivan Feb 5, 2010 0 This past week we have received several journal editorials around the “evils of ghost writing”. On the writers defense it…
CME CME Support: Collect Data Before Making Changes Thomas Sullivan Feb 4, 2010 0 In the recent edition of the American Medical Associations CPPD Report, Todd Dorman, MD, Associate dean and director of the…
Congress Obama Budget for Fiscal Year 2011: Health Care Provisions Thomas Sullivan Feb 3, 2010 0 This week, the Obama administration released a proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2011, with and overall total spending of $3.834…
Physician Payment Disclosure Physician Payment Sunshine: Cephalon Reports 2009 Payments to Physician… Thomas Sullivan Feb 3, 2010 1 As part of their September 2008 corporate integrity agreement, Cephalon posted payments to physician consultants and speakers for…
Congress Physician Payments: Doc Fix – 5 Years On the Table Thomas Sullivan Feb 3, 2010 0 According to the Wall Street Journal, although Medicare payments to doctors were supposed to fall by 21% at the start of this…
Conflict of Interest UK Vaccine Scare Linked to Attorney’s Payments to Physicians Thomas Sullivan Feb 2, 2010 0 A recent blog entry in Psychology Today, acknowledged that Andrew Wakefield, along with two of his collaborators, were “found by…
Conflict of Interest New York Times: Follow The Science Not the Money Thomas Sullivan Feb 2, 2010 0 Although recent media and government attention to conflicts of interest have centered on the medical world of physicians and the…
CME Conjoint Committee on Continuing Medical Education: National Priorities… Thomas Sullivan Feb 1, 2010 0 In the recent edition of the American Medical Associations CPPD Report, Norman B. Kahn Jr., MD, EVP/CEO, for the Council…