Healthcare Reform Health Care Reform: AMA — Public Option on the Table Thomas Sullivan Jul 9, 2009 0 While it seemed like a new President of the United States was going to have the biggest impact on health care reform, the new…
Congress NIH Transparency: Grassley and Kohl Weigh In Thomas Sullivan Jul 7, 2009 0 Senators Chuck Grassley and Herb Kohl today weighed in on transparency at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urging…
Academic Organizations SACME Posts Responses to ACCME and CEJA Thomas Sullivan Jul 7, 2009 0 The Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) recently published their responses to the ACCME and AMA CEJA.…
Medical Journals The Physician-Industry Relationship: Lessons from the Minnesota Experience Thomas Sullivan Jul 6, 2009 0 Keeping up with the growing trend of publications on Physician-Industry relations, an endocrinologist from the University…
Congress Letters from Grassley: Chasing Journals Ghosts Writers Thomas Sullivan Jul 6, 2009 0 Senator Chuck Grassley has asked eight leading medical journals to describe their policies and practices regarding ghostwriting.…
Medical Legal Data Mining: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear IMS Appeal of New Hampshire Law Thomas Sullivan Jul 2, 2009 0 According to the Rutland Herald and IMS Health, on Monday, June 29, 2009, the United States Supreme Court denied granting…
Massachusetts Code of Conduct Massachusetts Code of Conduct: Massachusetts and Vermont’s Gift Ban and… Thomas Sullivan Jul 2, 2009 0 On July 1st the Massachusetts and Vermont’s gift bans and registry of payments to physicians came into effect. The Wall…
Institute of Medicine IOM: Comparative Effectivenes Recommendations – Top Down Bureaucracy at Its… Thomas Sullivan Jul 2, 2009 0 In the midst of all the chaos surrounding the economic downfall, Americans overlooked a key component of the American…
Medical Journals JAMA: ACC President Rebuts — JAMA Call for Banning Industry… Thomas Sullivan Jul 1, 2009 0 Total separation between the profession of medicine and the drug and device industry would cause irreparable harm to our patients…
Healthcare Reform Health Care Reform: Status Update – Watching the Time Thomas Sullivan Jul 1, 2009 0 Although most measurements of success for a US President have rested solely on economic factors, the legacy of President Obama…