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Gift Giving Must Stop Says ProPublica

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: May 9, 2011
According to ProPublica—though transparency has seemingly increased between pharma and physicians since the Christmastime release of its Dollars for Docs report—medical societies and organizations are still having a holiday with industry money. Three days before Christmas last year, independent news organization ProPublica released its own “naughty and nice” list in the form of its Dollars for [...]
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Regulator Move Re-Opens Arguments over European Transparency

By Julian Upton | Published: March 9, 2011
At the end of last month, European public health and transparency campaigners sent a letter to EC health commissioner John Dalli, outlining their concerns about former EMA head Thomas Lönngren’s recent career move. The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), Health Action International (HAI) Europe, the International Society of Drug Bulletins (ISDB) — and [...]
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Pharma Gets the ProPublica Treatment

By Walter Armstrong | Published: October 27, 2010
Alternative news organization and media allies investigate the industry’s payments to doctors—launching a fresh assault on the ethical status quo. By Walter Armstrong Last week, Big Pharma’s practice of paying doctors to do medical education, promote its products, or both was the focus of a multimedia blitz launched by ProPublica in collaboration with National Public Radio, the [...]
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Nothing is Rotten in the State of Denmark

By Julian Upton | Published: March 2, 2010
Guest blog by Reflector, Pharm Exec Europe’s Brussels correspondent. Denmark is still on the fringes of some European Union policies. Notably, it has not yet embraced the euro as a currency, and it keeps its distance from the common defence policy. But in one respect, its pharmaceutical industry has just shown that it is well abreast [...]
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