Affordable Care Act Affordable Care Act and Biotech’s Adjusting to the New Landscape Thomas Sullivan Jun 2, 2010 0 After the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March, the biotechnology-industry began to focus on a number of measures…
Physician Payment Disclosure Physician Payment Sunshine: Medtronic Reports Physician Payments Thomas Sullivan Jun 2, 2010 0 Following the trend of major pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Merck, and GlaxoSmithKline, medical-device maker…
Clinical Research Tufts Study Shows Clinical Trials Are Harder To Conduct Thomas Sullivan Jun 1, 2010 0 The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) at Tufts University provides strategic information to help drug…
CME PACME: Session on External Environment Looked 360 Thomas Sullivan Jun 1, 2010 0 I recently had the opportunity to moderate a panel at Pharmaceutical Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (PACME) discussing…
Clinical Research Research America Study: American’s Confident in FDA and Biomedical Research Thomas Sullivan May 28, 2010 0 Before taking your next insulin shot or beta blocker, did you ever wonder how the medication your taking went from the labs into…
FDA FDA: Off Label May Be the Wrong Label Thomas Sullivan May 27, 2010 0 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged for years that "good medical practice and the best interests of the…
AMA AMA CEJA: Strike 4 – Report Perhaps Ushered from the CME Ballpark Thomas Sullivan May 26, 2010 0 In its fourth attempt to soil independent CME grants provided by industry to advance competency and patient outcomes, the…
FDA IOM: Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease Thomas Sullivan May 26, 2010 0 In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a study on the evaluation…
Conflict of Interest FDA Transparency Initiative: Draft Disclosure Policies Thomas Sullivan May 25, 2010 1 In addition to the recently published Nation Institutes of Health (NIH) transparency Guidelines, the Food and Drug Administration…
Conflict of Interest NIH Proposed Transparency Rules Thomas Sullivan May 24, 2010 0 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed new rules to amend its regulations on the Responsibility of Applicants…