Newsroom RX Archive

• 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