Commercial Support

Company news: Lighthouse Learning and Shire

August 30, 2011

The ACCME awarded provisional two-year accreditation to Lighthouse Learning, the educational content provider which develops and sells CME curricula without accepting commercial funding.
 

Doctors chip in more for CME, drugmakers less: report

August 12, 2011

The drug industry's backing of certified CME fell for a third straight year, as registration fees and other income surged, just-released data from ACCME show.
 

Recent Pfizer CME grants take non-clinical approach

August 11, 2011

In a sign of industry's ongoing desire to broaden its CME funding outlook, a couple of recently supported educational programs by Pfizer aim to foster practice-based improvement as they seek to advance the science of CME.
 

Idea for generic CME fund meets with skepticism

March 15, 2011

A medical society that suggested using pooled funds to handle commercial support for medical education got an earful from industry.
 

Progenics shifts Relistor marketing duties from Pfizer to Salix

February 08, 2011

Progenics announced that it will hand over commercial duties on Relistor, a subcutaneous injection for opioid-induced constipation, to Salix Pharmaceuticals, beginning in April. Financial terms include a $60 million upfront payment to Progenics, and another potential $290 million in development and sales-based milestone payments.
 

Has commercial support for CME bottomed out?

October 13, 2010

Industry support for continuing medical education (CME) has been waning the last two years, but some say the bottom may be in sight.
 

New med-ed firm says no to industry funding

September 14, 2010

A new medical education company has opened offering to produce CME that is free of commercial support.
 

Industry support of CME down 17%

July 08, 2010

Total commercial support of accredited CME fell 17% to $856 million in 2009, according to ACCME's annual report—marking its second straight year of double-digit declines on a percentage basis.
 

ACCME: Peer review, plus other provider controls, enable industry employees to present original research in CME

June 29, 2010

Several months' worth of dialogue, at times public and heated, between physician groups like the American Heart Association and the ACCME, has resulted in new guidance from the regulator of continuing medical education: Industry scientists, who had been barred from presenting original product-related research at for-credit talks, may now do so as long as provider controls ensure they have zero control over the content.
 

Specialty societies' code targets conflicts of interest

April 22, 2010

Medical society journals must ban ghostwritten articles and cannot place ads for drugs next to editorial content discussing those products or their makers under a sweeping ethics code signed by several major medical societies.
 

Fewer than 1% of docs sees bias in online CME, survey finds

September 15, 2009

A Medscape-sponsored survey of a million physicians participating in online CME found that fewer than 1% perceived bias, regardless of whether or not it was commercially-supported.
 

Industry support of CME fell 14% in 2008, ACCME data show

July 23, 2009

Total commercial support of accredited CME dropped 14% to $1 billion in 2008, according to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's annual report -- even as the number of physicians participating in CME activities jumped 22% to 10.6 million.
 

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