The University of Minnesota Medical School is weighing a tough ban on gifts to physicians and requiring docs to publicly disclose all relationships with drug companies, according to a university newspaper. Those measures are included in the recommendations of a University Medical School conflict-of-interest task force, which called for: limiting the use of samples and…
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) said DTC ads for devices should be regulated just as much as those for drugs and called on his colleague in the House, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), to work with him toward that end.
In a strategic partnership with inVentiv, Merck announced that it will utilize inVentiv’s contract sales staff to supplement Merck’s in-house sales force.
A study published in the October 2008 edition of the journal Pediatrics concluded that poor and uninsured children are not the main recipients of free drug samples and that free samples do not target the neediest of children selectively.
In anticipation of the new PhRMA guidelines that go into effect in January 2009, drug companies are scrambling to find innovative ways to deliver pharma code compliant merchandise to doctors.
Merck announced plans to disclose some grants made by its global human health division for independent educational initiatives in the US, including those for accredited CME.