Congress Billy Tauzin Leaving PhRMA Thomas Sullivan Feb 16, 2010 0 Last week, Billy Tauzin, a 66-year-old cancer survivor, and former Congressman from Louisiana, announced that he would be…
CME Cleveland Clinic Study of CME Bias Found No Evidence of Difference Between… Thomas Sullivan Feb 16, 2010 0 In a recent edition of the Journal of Academic Medicine, Steven Kawczak and William Carey of the Cleveland…
Medical Legal Why All the Pharmaceutical Lawsuits? Thomas Sullivan Feb 12, 2010 0 A recent article from the Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), examined the trend of “pharmaceutical manufacturers becoming the…
Medical Legal New Developments in Pharmaceutical Lawsuits – Attorneys Studies for Hire:… Thomas Sullivan Feb 11, 2010 0 A new development in the continuing trend of pharmaceutical company lawsuits occurred last week, when a “New Jersey appeals…
Pharmaceutical and Device GlaxoSmithKline’s CEO Andrew Witty and His Work in Developing Nations:… Thomas Sullivan Feb 11, 2010 0 The recent trend of media and Congress to call drug and pharmaceutical companies the “bad guys,” like Wall Street and AIG, only…
Conflict of Interest Letters to the Editor: Conflict of Interest in Authorship, and Disclosure… Thomas Sullivan Feb 10, 2010 0 Last year, Laurence J. Hirsch, a former spokesman for the pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck, wrote an 11-page…
Conflict of Interest State Policy: New Jersey Senate Committee Passes Conflict of Interest… Thomas Sullivan Feb 9, 2010 0 Last week, the New Jersey Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee approved a bill—S-369—that will…
Open Payments Q&A State Policy: Minnesota Clarifies Restrictions on Payments to Physicians Thomas Sullivan Feb 8, 2010 0 In response to recent joint hearings held by the Minnesota Commerce and Labor, and the Business, Industry and Jobs…
Conflict of Interest FDA Official Cleared of Conflict Allegations in Heparin Contamination Case Thomas Sullivan Feb 8, 2010 0 Last week Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA was cleared of a conflict of interest…
CME Continuing Medical Education: Bringing Evidence Based Medicine to Patients Thomas Sullivan Feb 5, 2010 2 A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), titled “Continuing Medical Education: Let the…