Events CBI West Coast Forum on Educational Grants Thomas Sullivan Apr 14, 2009 0 Another Educational Opportunity includes the 3rd Annual West Coast Forum on Educational Grants for the Pharmaceutical, Biotech…
Events PACME Spring Summit Thomas Sullivan Apr 14, 2009 0 The Pharmaceutical Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (PACME) is hosting their Spring Summit on May 7-8th at the Sofitel…
Events Harvard’s Ackerman Symposium on Medical Industry, Medical Education Thomas Sullivan Apr 14, 2009 0 Each year Harvard holds an Ackerman Symposium, to discuss the social issues in medicine, the topics in past years have ranged…
Medical Journals JAMA: AMA Laying Off 100 Employees – Running Away Advertisers Thomas Sullivan Apr 13, 2009 0 Despite a growing healthcare economy, The American Medical Association (AMA) announced they were laying off 100 workers, about…
Academic Organizations Partners Healthcare COI Policy and the Prescription Project (Who’s calling… Thomas Sullivan Apr 13, 2009 0 According to Partners COI Policy (page 11), the Prescription Project was deeply involved in guiding the writing of the policy.…
Medical Societies Guidelines: APA Guidelines and their Use of Experts Thomas Sullivan Apr 12, 2009 0 The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is currently updating all its practice guidelines. According to a study recently…
Government Regulation Groups Pharmascolds an Official Term Thomas Sullivan Apr 11, 2009 0 Pharmascolds has been added to the American vocabulary this week according to Schott’s Vocabulary column in the New York Times.…
CME ACCME Commercial Support Will Continue Thomas Sullivan Apr 10, 2009 0 According to the Executive Summary of the March, 2009 Board Meeting of Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education…
Academic Organizations Academic Medical Centers: Partners Healthcare Adopts Strict COI Policy Thomas Sullivan Apr 10, 2009 0 In an e-mail to their physicians, Partners Healthcare, which includes Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s Boston, and…
State Policy State Policy: Minnesota and Iowa Pharmaceutical “Gift” Bans Retreat,… Thomas Sullivan Apr 9, 2009 0 According to NLARX “gift” ban proposals in Minnesota (Withdrawn) and Iowa passed the senate but (Striped out of the bill in the…