http://www.mmm-online.com/conflict-of-interest/topic/2085/ Articles tagged with Conflict Of Interest from Medical Marketing and Media MMM mmmsubs@haymarketmedia.com no A BMJ study finds that medical school gift bans make doctors less likely to prescribe a new drug. Also of note: consumers think money motivates some doctors' recommendations. http://www.mmm-online.com/researchers-find-schools-minting-pitch-resistant-docs/article/278972/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:01:35 GMT A BMJ study finds that medical school gift bans make doctors less likely to prescribe a new drug. Also of note: consumers think money motivates some doctors' recommendations. MMM CMS issued its long-delayed final rule for collecting data on industry payments to physicians, ordering data collection to begin in August and asserting that the federal law preempts state laws. http://www.mmm-online.com/cms-releases-sunshine-final-rule-federal-preemption-august-start-date/article/278783/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:20:35 GMT CMS issued its long-delayed final rule for collecting data on industry payments to physicians, ordering data collection to begin in August and asserting that the federal law preempts state laws. MMM GlaxoSmithKline's Dierdre Connelly peeled back the curtain on the company's sales force incentives revamp in a speech to the Pharmaceutical Regulatory and Compliance Congress, and pleaded for recognition that the industry had cleaned up the sketchy practices of the Blockbuster Era. http://www.mmm-online.com/gsks-connelly-weve-changed-our-ways-and-please-dont-imprison-execs/article/267037/ Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:56:09 GMT GlaxoSmithKline's Dierdre Connelly peeled back the curtain on the company's sales force incentives revamp in a speech to the Pharmaceutical Regulatory and Compliance Congress, and pleaded for recognition that the industry had cleaned up the sketchy practices of the Blockbuster Era. MMM Medtronic rebuffed Senate Finance Committee charges that the company ghostwrote or influenced journal articles about its InFuse bone-growth product while conspiring to paper over adverse events from the treatment. http://www.mmm-online.com/medtronic-defends-physician-ties-ided-in-senate-report/article/265881/ Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:33:00 GMT Medtronic rebuffed Senate Finance Committee charges that the company ghostwrote or influenced journal articles about its InFuse bone-growth product while conspiring to paper over adverse events from the treatment. MMM Physicians take pharma-sponsored clinical trials with a grain of salt, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has found. http://www.mmm-online.com/docs-downgrade-results-of-pharma-funded-clinical-trials/article/259981/ Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:52:40 GMT Physicians take pharma-sponsored clinical trials with a grain of salt, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has found. MMM Physicians are reconsidering their participation in industry-sponsored CME, fearful that their inclusion in Sunshine Act databases as having received payments from companies will tarnish their reputations and fuel perceptions of conflicts of interest, a survey has found. http://www.mmm-online.com/sunshine-act-could-scare-docs-away-from-commercially-supported-cme/article/258904/ Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:01:28 GMT Physicians are reconsidering their participation in industry-sponsored CME, fearful that their inclusion in Sunshine Act databases as having received payments from companies will tarnish their reputations and fuel perceptions of conflicts of interest, a survey has found. MMM The Senate Finance Committee is looking to crack down on unnecessary pain prescriptions and is using a money trail to do it. http://www.mmm-online.com/makers-of-pain-pills-advocacy-groups-at-center-of-senate-probe/article/240387/ Wed, 09 May 2012 18:40:40 GMT The Senate Finance Committee is looking to crack down on unnecessary pain prescriptions and is using a money trail to do it. MMM Medical journal coverage of the question of physician-industry relationships is "unbalanced" and may be skewing public policy towards ever-more restrictive safeguards against industry influence. http://www.mmm-online.com/journal-pharmascolds-skew-policy-says-study/article/236332/ Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:56:25 GMT Medical journal coverage of the question of physician-industry relationships is "unbalanced" and may be skewing public policy towards ever-more restrictive safeguards against industry influence. MMM The majority of physicians agrees that it's important to disclose to patients any financial relationships with drug and device companies but, research shows, there remains considerable rearguard sentiment to transparency. http://www.mmm-online.com/require-disclosure-of-pharma-ties-most-docs-say/article/227749/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:58:11 GMT The majority of physicians agrees that it's important to disclose to patients any financial relationships with drug and device companies but, research shows, there remains considerable rearguard sentiment to transparency. MMM Researchers analyzing the prevalence of ghostwriting in leading medical journals over more than a decade saw a decline but found inappropriate authorship remained all too common. http://www.mmm-online.com/despite-decline-ghostwriting-in-papers-still-common-study/article/215257/ Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:18:00 GMT Researchers analyzing the prevalence of ghostwriting in leading medical journals over more than a decade saw a decline but found inappropriate authorship remained all too common. MMM