According to USA Today, nine states—including my home state of Massachusetts—are considering legislation that would require closer scrutiny of all pharma gifts to physicians. Massachusetts is taking it a step further, with a proposal to ban all...
Homeland Defense Journal's Medical Aspects of Disaster Management Conference sounds like a good one for CME professionals to attend. According to a press release, ...
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology bolsters the importance of reflection to learning and retaining what you learn—at least, it does if you're a rat, according to this article in the Boston Globe. The researchers found that...
A while back, the British Medical Journal explored the idea of disease mongering and CME's potential place in it (i.e., Did GlaxoSmithKline “invent” irritable bowel syndrome in part by underwriting CME on the subject?). The idea must have been...
Here's an editorial by Jerome P. Kassirer from yesterday's Boston Globe that points to meetings specifically as being one of pharma's media of influence over physicians. He uses the recent $185 million class action lawsuit against Bristol-Myers...
In case you're not sure how well-prepared healthcare workers feel when it comes to a possible avian flu pandemic, this survey of primary care physicians by Pri-Med Research should eliminate any doubts...
On Friday, Abbott Laboratories was suspended from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry for at least six months for violating the ABPI Code of Practice. According to this article in the Financial Times, the company got in trouble...