State Policy State Policy: Iowa Senate Passes Payment “Gift” Ban and Registry, Data… Thomas Sullivan Mar 20, 2009 2 In a largely partisan vote the Iowa State Senate passed (30-18) Senate Bill 389, a comprehensive healthcare reform bill which…
Pharmaceutical and Device US Drug Prescription Drug Sales Growth Comes to a Screeching Halt Thomas Sullivan Mar 20, 2009 0 According to IMS Health, the growth rate for prescription drugs slowed to 1.3 percent in 2008, to $291 billion. …
State Policy Minnesota Data Mining Restrictions Advance Thomas Sullivan Mar 19, 2009 0 Minnesota was once well known for its home town company, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), which grew into one of the…
FDA FDA: Don’t Leak This……Don’t Leak This Thomas Sullivan Mar 17, 2009 0 Do do do do….do do do do don’t leak this… this may sound like a line from the MC Hammer 1990 music hit U Can’t Touch This. …
Medical Journals JAMA Editor: Calls Critic “A Nobody and a Nothing” Thomas Sullivan Mar 16, 2009 0 Remember how in high school, we would put each other down, and make rude comments about each other. As we got older, we…
Conflict of Interest Conflict of Interest: Why Research and Government Need the Private Sector Thomas Sullivan Mar 14, 2009 0 This weekend, there are two major editorials providing an alternate perspective on research and conflict of interest. The…
Healthcare Reform Health Care Reform: Obama Announces Key FDA Appointments: Hamburg and… Thomas Sullivan Mar 14, 2009 0 In his weekly address, President Barack Obama announced the appointments of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as Commissioner of the…
Uncategorized Medical Journals: Hierarchy of Purity Thomas Sullivan Mar 13, 2009 0 This week in Burrells Reports Peter Pitts executive director of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and Public…
Massachusetts Code of Conduct Massachusetts Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacture’s Code of… Thomas Sullivan Mar 11, 2009 0 After receiving input from over one hundred organizations, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (the…
Medical Legal Medical Device Safety Act: Congress Re-Introduces with Renewed Vigor Thomas Sullivan Mar 9, 2009 0 The day after the US Supreme Court ruled against Wyeth in an FDA pre-emption case. Congress has gotten in the act to level…