Newsroom RX Archive

• Wall Street Journal: China Never Investigated Tainted Heparin, Says Probe 07/21/2010
• Wall Street Journal: J&J starts disclosing payments to doctors 07/09/2010
• Pharmacy fraud in Baltimore highlights need for better prescription drug-tracking system 07/07/2010
• House Subcommittee sets $2.571B mark for FDA in FY 2011 07/03/2010
• Wall Street Journal: AAMC says teaching hospitals should have COI guidelines 07/01/2010
• New York Times: Debate Over Industry Role in Educating Doctors 06/24/2010
• Wall Street Journal: FDA will propose stronger rules on outsourced drug making 06/15/2010
• Drug makers disclose samples to Congress, reports Wall Street Journal 06/04/2010
• Washington Post: RxP director calls Motrin phantom recalls "shocking" 05/28/2010
• Washington Post: RxP director says proposed NIH rules are step in right direction 05/20/2010
• Arizona Republic: RxP director says Sunshine Act offers "real transparency" for the first time 05/17/2010
• House committee to investigate OTC meds recall 05/06/2010
• Wall Street Journal: letter says FDA failed to follow leads on Heparin 04/30/2010
• Financial Times: RxP director discusses new Sunshine law 04/23/2010
• More safety measures needed as drugs from China enter U.S., project director tells FDA Week 04/21/2010
• Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Shining new light on payments to docs 04/20/2010
• SmartMoney: 10 Things Drug Companies Won't Say 04/12/2010
• CLARIFICATION: Reconciliation bill has no impact on Sunshine Act 04/06/2010
• WSJ, New York Times, AP: RxP says Pfizer, company disclosures no sub for national website 04/01/2010
• RxP Director Allan Coukell on PBS Nightly Business Report 03/31/2010
• RxP director discusses Sunshine Act at Wall Street Journal Health blog 03/29/2010
• Physician Payment Sunshine provisions pass with House health reform bill 03/22/2010
• Sunshine Act and health care reform: what you need to know 03/20/2010
• New York Times: Report says China sold bad vaccines to hospitals 03/19/2010
• Congress hears from FDA on drug safety two years after heparin scare 03/05/2010
• "Marketplace" follows academic detailers in Pennsylvania 02/24/2010
• Sunshine rules in White House health care bill 02/22/2010
• JAMA: RxP and consumers, industry weigh online ads at FDA hearing 01/26/2010
• Miami Herald: RxP says voluntary disclosures inconsistent, don't capture CME 01/25/2010
• Modern Healthcare: RxP says disclosure must be nationwide, uniform to work 01/04/2010
• Star-Tribune: University of Minnesota makes "dramatic improvements" in COI policies 11/18/2009
• Report shows MassHealth used clinical rigor, contained costs 11/13/2009
• RxP addresses FDA on pharma online communications 11/12/2009
• New York Times: Sunshine provisions moving in health care reform bills 11/04/2009
• Health Beat: Time to crack down on prescription data-mining 10/23/2009
• Boston Globe: MDs should not be drug company speakers 10/01/2009
• Financial Times: RxP director says health reform likely to include transparency measures 09/24/2009
• Cleveland Plain Dealer: Free drug samples may come with high costs 09/08/2009
• Star-Tribune: Forest paid Minnesota doctors more than $750,000 in 2008 09/03/2009
• Medical schools, NIH should ban all ghostwriting, says Boston Globe editorial 08/25/2009
• Washington Post: RxP, consumer advocates say patients need transparency 08/18/2009
• RxP director Allan Coukell addresses FDA Transparency Task Force 06/24/2009
• Vermont AG lends his support to the Physician Payment Sunshine Act 06/22/2009
• AMSA Scorecard: One-fifth of medical schools improved conflict-of-interest policies last year 06/16/2009
• New England Journal of Medicine: Vermont gifts and disclosure law sets higher bar 06/11/2009
• Miami Herald: RxP finds drug reps doing poor job of complying with lobbying law 06/10/2009
• PPP, others caution use of datamining in USA Today 05/14/2009
• J&J endorses Sunshine Act 05/08/2009
• Senate Finance Committee, IOM add support for Physician Payments Sunshine Act 04/30/2009
• “IDEA” academic detailing bill introduced in Senate, House 04/06/2009
• Stanford to publicly disclose researchers who take industry payments 04/02/2009
• JAMA: Heads of professional medical associations recommend cutting reliance on industry funding 04/01/2009
• "Too-cozy ties between doctors and drugmakers must end," says LA Times 03/09/2009
• Montana house committee hears data-mining bill 02/12/2009
• Grassley-Kohl amendment would shore up NIH conflicts rules 02/05/2009
• Senate reintroduces Physician Payments Sunshine Act 01/22/2009
• FDA skipping steps in high-risk device approvals, GAO report says 01/16/2009
• Conflict of interests loosely monitored at FDA: a report by HHS Inspector General 01/15/2009
• RxP and PhRMA discuss code on Minnesota Public Radio 01/14/2009
• New York Times: PhRMA code has "too many loopholes" 12/31/2008
• Prescription Project criticizes new PhRMA DTCA guidelines 12/10/2008
• Rep. Waxman discusses FDA, health reform at Prescription Project conference 12/09/2008
• RxP petitions FDA to remove device ads lacking risk info from YouTube 12/03/2008
• 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upholds New Hampshire data-mining law 11/18/2008
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: RxP director says patients benefit from transparency 11/04/2008
• New York Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution endorse Sunshine Act 10/14/2008
• Pediatrics study finds drug samples may be putting children at risk 10/06/2008
• Eli Lilly to disclose payments to individual physicians in 2009 09/24/2008
• Stanford to limit industry money to CME programs 08/26/2008
• CNN looks at medical devicemaker conflicts, suit 08/22/2008
• Massachusetts Gov. Patrick signs cost, quality bill with pharma restrictions 08/11/2008
• Congress introduces academic detailing bill, highlights need for unbiased drug info 07/31/2008
• Report from tri-state initiative provides roadmap for prescriber education programs 07/30/2008
• Head of Kaiser's physician group calls PhRMA code 'window dressing' 07/16/2008
• Sen. Grassley looks into psychiatry association's funding 07/14/2008
• PhRMA revises marketing code, stops small gifts 07/10/2008
• Pfizer ends commercial funding of CME 07/03/2008
• Survey finds Americans want to know about physician payments 06/18/2008
• AMSA, RxP release PharmFree Scorecard 06/03/2008
• The data dos and don'ts for Medicaid: a fact sheet 05/12/2008
• West Virginia legislator, RxP discuss med school gifts with Gazette 05/09/2008
• New York Times: AAMC recommends medical schools ban gifts, speakers bureaus 04/27/2008
• RxP Releases Toolkits to Guide Hospitals and Medical Schools with Conflicts of Interest 04/25/2008
• RxP and Others Urge FDA Not to Loosen Off-Label Marketing Rules 04/24/2008
• Ghostwriters on the sly: Vioxx studies found written by Merck, not docs 04/16/2008
• AP: Drug companies answer Sen. Grassley, begin making donations public 04/11/2008
• "Playing by Their Own Rules" CALPIRG report looks at drug company gifts to docs 03/31/2008
• Former drup rep talks tactics in primetime with NECN 03/25/2008
• DeFazio, Stark introduce Sunshine Act in House 03/17/2008
• MA senate president Murray puts Rx reform forward in cost and quality bill 03/03/2008
• Oregon family physicians group goes pharm-free, others consider policies 03/03/2008
• Senate aging committee holds hearing on medical devicemakers 02/27/2008
• Boston Globe examines line between doctors and drug companies at academic medical centers 02/25/2008
• Washington state senate passes prescription data privacy bill 02/25/2008
• Pitt medical school magazine features 'new diet' for doctors 02/19/2008
• MGH researchers find med schools slow to adopt policies on institutional COI 02/14/2008
• Washington docs call for patient-physician privacy in Seattle Post-Intelligencer 02/13/2008
• AAMC report looks at science of influence 02/05/2008
• Rx bills heard in Washington health care committtees 01/23/2008
• OIG report finds NIH oversight of research conflicts lacking 01/22/2008
• Massachusetts coalition to control drug costs launches on Beacon Hill 01/17/2008
• Safe Rx passes in DC City Council by 7-6 vote 01/10/2008
• Robin Hood Rx? Study finds most free drug samples aren't going to poor 01/03/2008
• RxP urges physicians and medical centers to rethink free samples 01/03/2008
• UMass Medical Center clamps down on industry ties to hospital, med school 01/03/2008
• Maine docs should have choice to keep prescribing data out of sales pitches, op-ed in the Bangor Daily News 12/19/2007
• RxP report on kids cough-and-cold med marketing in New England Journal of Medicine 12/19/2007
• Detailers and data-mining: Prescription Project on ABC WLS-TV Chicago 12/02/2007
• Bad medicine, good TV: RxP, BMC featured on WBZ-Boston 11/28/2007
• University of Pittsburgh nears completion of new guidelines 11/13/2007
• Prescription Project legal report on data mining appears in BNA 11/02/2007
• NPR Science Friday: conflicts of interest on medical campuses 10/22/2007
• FDA meets on child cough and cold meds, RxP releases report on undue risks 10/18/2007
• Department chairs in medical schools commonly have ties to industry 10/17/2007
• Prescription Politico: the Sunshine Act gathers support 10/12/2007
• Read the PostScript: RxP joins the blogosphere! 09/25/2007
• New Jersey AG calls task force to consider physician gifts 09/20/2007
• Philly Inquirer: Restuccia calls prescription data mining "crucial piece in a machine" to raise drug costs 09/18/2007
• NYTimes: Senators Grassley, Kohl bring gifts disclosure bill 09/07/2007
• Boston Medical Center, BU Med School move to forefront of national reform efforts with new conflict-of-interest policies 09/06/2007
• Prescription Project releases legal analysis on flawed prescriber data suits 09/04/2007
• "Getting Your Money's Worth": Minnesota Health Care News highlights RxP coalition work 08/02/2007
• SF Chronicle: Project director and physician advocate issue call for prescriber privacy 08/02/2007
• FDA user fee act passes both House and Senate, ready for conference 07/13/2007
• Pharma opens its wallet wider for state support, WSJ reports 07/13/2007
• The New York Times editorial: "Is your doctor tied to drug makers?" 07/03/2007
• End the sale of prescribing information to drug companies: a call to action 06/25/2007
• Rosiglitazone, FDA under microscope after cardiologist finds increased risk of heart attacks with diabetes drug 06/06/2007
• Censured doctors still received pharmaceutical paychecks, new report shows 06/05/2007
• Doctors and data-mining: A history and call-to-action in Annals of Internal Medicine 05/18/2007
• Safety of anemia drugs for cancer patients questioned, New York Times urges end to doctor rebates 05/18/2007
• Prescription Project works toward stronger gifts law, patient education in Minnesota 05/16/2007
• New study shows doctors' ties to drug companies still too strong 05/01/2007