Physician Payment Sunshine Act Physician Payment Sunshine: MedPac Prepares to Act Thomas Sullivan Oct 13, 2008 0 MedPac, a congressional advisory group, has been holding a series of meetings the last three months to suggest to Congress…
Uncategorized Presidential Debate 2: Candidates from Mars Thomas Sullivan Oct 9, 2008 0 "What a funny title?!" you say, but from watching the presidential debate on Tuesday night between Barak Obama and John…
Pharmaceutical and Device Eli Lilly: Settles Down with State AG’s Thomas Sullivan Oct 8, 2008 1 Yesterday Eli Lilly settled a consumer protection lawsuit on Zyprexa, one of their psychiatric drugs, for $62 million with 32…
Congress Letters from Grassley: Emory Professor Caught with Hands in Cookie Jar Thomas Sullivan Oct 6, 2008 0 What started as a sleepy story about a physician who had failed to report conflict of interest to Emory University has led…
Congress Senator Grassley: Interview Provides Context Thomas Sullivan Oct 6, 2008 0 For those of us who have followed Senator’s Grassley’s interest in the pharmaceutical and device industry, there often…
Pharmaceutical and Device Physician Payment Sunshine: Cephalon Agreement to Act Thomas Sullivan Sep 30, 2008 1 Every industry has its bad actors. In the case of pharmaceutical companies the bad actors fall into two categories; those…
Pharmaceutical and Device Pfizer Cardiovascular: The End of an Era Thomas Sullivan Sep 30, 2008 0 Pfizer announced WSJ: Pfizer Plans to Abandon Heart-Drug Development that they are giving up on the Cardiovascular business…
Congress Letters from Grassley: NIH Check this Out Thomas Sullivan Sep 26, 2008 0 This week Senator Grassley sent some more letters, Grassley asks NIH to account for employment of expert advisor, this time he is…
Pharmaceutical and Device Physician Payment Sunshine: Merck Joins the Act Thomas Sullivan Sep 26, 2008 0 In a move to give the public more transparency around physician payments and grants Merck announced that starting in October,…
Government Regulation Groups Physician Payment Sunshine: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Thomas Sullivan Sep 26, 2008 0 Several months ago, I met a young woman who was the chief lobbyist for a well know anti-industry group. In our discussion…