Medical Legal Medical Legal: Four Companies Settle for Reduced Medicaid Rebates Thomas Sullivan Oct 21, 2009 0 Four pharmaceutical companies announced they will pay a total of $124 million nationally as part of a major Medicaid fraud case.…
AMA Senate Debates Doc Fix Off Budget – AMA Pushes Hard for Legislation Thomas Sullivan Oct 20, 2009 0 While over 40 years ago, the American Medical Association (AMA) ‘opened it’s bid to kill Medicare,’ today they are now…
CME Extremely Low Rates of Bias Reported in Commercially Supported CME… Thomas Sullivan Oct 20, 2009 1 The American Journal of Medicine (AMJ) recently produced a critical study titled: “Low Rates of Reporting Commercial Bias by…
Physician Payment Disclosure Physician Payment Sunshine: Merck, Second Pharmaceutical Company to… Thomas Sullivan Oct 20, 2009 0 Following Eli Lilly, Merck became the second company to publish their payments to US based speakers for the Third Quarter of…
Patient Organizations Continuing Education to Prevent Infection: Collaboration to Save Lives Thomas Sullivan Oct 20, 2009 0 The potential for a loved one to suddenly be taken by cancer or heart disease is devastating. Fortunately, America prides itself…
Medical Journals Medical Journals: Extremely Low Numbers of Retractions Found in Industry… Thomas Sullivan Oct 19, 2009 0 A recent article in Nature Medicine did an “Analysis of Retractions” in medical journals and claimed that “about half of the…
Medical Journals ISMAPP Prepares To Defend Medical Writing Thomas Sullivan Oct 19, 2009 0 In response to the increase in press and US government activity regarding the integrity of medical writing, the International…
Congress Letters from Kohl: Avastin, Lucentis and CMS Coding Change Thomas Sullivan Oct 19, 2009 0 Genentech Inc. has two biological agents that can treat Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD) a leading cause of blindness…
AMA ACRE Responds to CEJA Report Financial Relationships with Industry in… Thomas Sullivan Oct 19, 2009 0 The Association of Clinical Researchers and Educators (ACRE), recently released their response to the AMA CEJA Report:…
CME Keystone Symposia Discontinues CME Accreditation Due to Speaker Ban Thomas Sullivan Oct 15, 2009 0 The Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology recently announced that they will no longer be offering CME credit…