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Europe: Go Easy on Your Pharma Lobbyists

By Julian Upton | Published: October 27, 2009
European pharmaceutical executives are sometimes heard to complain that their public affairs departments are not doing a good job for them, and that their industry associations are a waste of time and money. A report published in Brussels earlier this month suggests that this judgment may be excessively harsh. Lobbyists for healthcare and pharmaceuticals score [...]
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Playing Spot the Healthcare Lobbyist

By Walter Armstrong | Published: July 8, 2009
National Public Radio has posted an interesting, possibly provocative, but certainly confusing, item on its website. It’s a photograph taken late last month during the first Congressional hearings on the trillion-dollar healthcare reform legislation. Actually, it’s not just a photograph but a panoramic, four-frame, interactive feature complete with cutesy rollover icons. More importantly, it shows not [...]
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