Physician Payment Sunshine Act Physician Payment Sunshine: Marketing Research Association Declares a… Thomas Sullivan Mar 24, 2010 0 While insurance companies, pharmaceutical and medical device makers, and doctors are still trying to determine how the newly…
NIH NIH Transparency: Research Over Bureaucracy Thomas Sullivan Mar 24, 2010 0 This past January, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) sent letters to Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National…
Congress Senate Aging Committee on Pharmaceutical Pricing Thomas Sullivan Mar 23, 2010 0 At the Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing last week, Senators focused on “Seniors Feeling the Squeeze: Rising Drug Prices…
Academic Organizations Stanford Ban’s Volunteer Faculty from Working with Industry Thomas Sullivan Mar 23, 2010 1 Although the Stanford University School of Medicine already has one of the most comprehensive policies in the country governing…
Healthcare Reform Health Care Reform: The Price of Reconciliation Thomas Sullivan Mar 22, 2010 0 While most of us were sleeping last night, the United States House of Representatives approved the Senate Health Care Bill. In a…
Healthcare Reform Physician Payment Sunshine Provisions: Patient Protection Affordable Care… Thomas Sullivan Mar 22, 2010 3 Tonight the House of Representatives passed the senate bill the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act and a Reconciliation…
CME NEJM Letters to the Editor: Underplaying the Value of Industry Support of… Thomas Sullivan Mar 19, 2010 1 An article last year in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) focused on “The agenda for continuing medical education —…
CME Harrington Relationships with Industry: Research, CME, Focus on Solutions Thomas Sullivan Mar 18, 2010 0 A recent lecture from Robert A. Harrington MD, FACC, focused on the "Relationships with Industry: Effects on the Academic…
ACCME Nissen Relationships with Industry: CME, Professional Societies and Red… Thomas Sullivan Mar 18, 2010 0 This week’s debate between Steven Nissen, MD Cleveland Clinic and Robert Harrington, MD Duke on Industry support of education…
Healthcare Reform Health Care Reform: Will the House Pass the Senate Bill Thomas Sullivan Mar 17, 2010 0 A recent memo from Ranking Republican of the House Rules Committee David Dreier (R-San Dimas, CA) asserted how “the Democratic…