There's an interesting post on the Pharma Marketing Blog about some possibly problematic ties between the RLS Foundation and its corporate pharma sponsors that have the potential to bias the research the foundation has one on the prevalence of RLS...
A manager at the Central Manchester Primary Care Trust sent a letter to pharma companies that asked them to pay into a "training fund" to get access to key physicians, according to ...
Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: The British Medical Journal maintains collections of articles in various categories. One of these is Changing Physician Behaviour, a collection of 124 articles to date. From here you can link to a...
I just got a note from a medical education coordinator at a community hospital whose director has tasked him with identifying three ways (besides paper survey, or verbal post-conference survey), to obtain physician feedback regarding the CME...
Leave it to Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, among other great books, to see parallels between PitBulls and prescription drugs. Here's the link, and here's a snip...
There's a bill pending in California, called the Access, Compassion, Care, and Ethics for Seriously Ill Patients Act, that would allow the marketing of drugs based on Phase I trial results and nonhuman studies for seriously ill patients. In a...
That'd be for continuing medical marijuana education, according to this site, which discusses a conference on just that topic held earlier this month at Santa Barbara Community College. And it sounds like it was accredited, too. Can you have off...