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NewsMedical societies financially tied to drugmakers
Concerns over conflicts of interest between pharmacy and medicine have caused several medical schools to kick drugmakers and marketers off their grounds. However, it seems medical societies still Read more...
Lax regulation of tube design harms patients
Weak federal oversight of tube design makes it all too easy for tubes with different functions to get mixed up in hospitals, harming patients, the New York Times reports. When the wrong connections Read more...
Medical device firms may be tapped to cut $15B to $25B in costs
With hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry already agreeing to accept considerable financial cutbacks in Medicare reimbursement to help reform go forward, it now seems to be the medical device Read more...
Senators want info on who paid doctors
While they still haven't passed a law forcing drug companies and medical device firms to disclose payments to doctors--as some influential legislators still hope to do--that doesn't mean lawmakers Read more...
FDA should regulate medical devicemakers' DTC advertising, advocates say
Recently, critics have made quite an uproar over the prevalence of direct-to-consumer advertising created by pharmaceutical companies, suggesting that such ads could be deceptive in their claims, Read more...
U.S. Senator questions partnership between cardiologists, medical devicemaker-backed group
Expect to see a lot more stories like this in one in coming months, folks, as it's become extremely popular to challenge medical devicemaker and pharmaceutical financing of, well, anything that Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Medical device industry ramping up lobbying budget
Given the amount of political change in the air, it's hardly surprising that the medical device industry spent a pretty penny--about $28 million--on lobbying last year. That's up from $26.5 million Read more...
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