Who would have guessed that the land of cows, antiques, and ski areas would be worth $3.11 million in drug marketing dollars? But that's what 48 pharma companies spent from July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004 to market their wares to docs and...
I know we've been posting a lot lately about the trustworthiness of medical publications (here, here, and here, for example). Now, thanks to Anne Taylor-Vaisey, I read this article about how journals are fighting back. A snip: ...
According to an article in the recent edition of AM News, a survey has found that at least some docs are beginning to accept that they play a role in the disparity in the quality of care provided to minority populations. Some of the survey results...
Maybe it's because I'm in the throes of writing an article about New Jersey's new law requiring mandatory cultural competency training, but I keep running into articles like this one...
This article from the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery is pretty interesting. It presents results from an outcomes investigation that was performed to compare physicians' ...
That's the question raised in this article in AM News, citing the recent disgrace caused by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' chief medical officer, Sean R. Tunis, MD, who is accused of lying about his CME credits. ...