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Pfizer to disclose US clinical trial payments

February 10, 2009
Medical Communications ethics

Pfizer has announced plans to disclose payments to healthcare professionals involved in clinical trials. The company will publicly declare all …

News

UK pharma to consider ban on doctor gifts

February 5, 2009
Medical Communications ABPI, Code of Practice, ethics

All gifts from pharma companies to doctors and to medical students – should be banned, according to a new report …

News

Pfizer UK hints at disclosure of payments to doctors

January 19, 2009
Medical Communications ethics

The UK might soon follow US companies by publicly declaring payments made to opinion leaders. David Gillen, Pfizer UK's medical …

News

Getting up to speed with India

January 12, 2009
Research and Development India, clinical trials, ethics

On a recent trip I made to India, the resourcefulness of the country's people was demonstrated to me as soon …

Feature

GSK halts political funding

January 5, 2009
Sales and Marketing GSK, ethics

GlaxoSmithKline will no longer make corporate political donations in a bid to make its dealings with governments more transparent and …

News

Declaring doctor payments

December 16, 2008
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, EFPIA, Europe, UK, US, ethics, industry relations, payments

A number of pharmaceutical companies in the US have recently announced they will declare all the payments to healthcare professionals. …

Feature

Good Publication Practice 2: updating best practice

November 13, 2008
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GPP, Good Publication Practice, clinical trials, ethics, journals, publication

 Results from clinical trials are the very lifeblood of the pharmaceutical industry, representing the frontline in the search for new …

Feature

Lilly to reveal doctor payments

September 26, 2008
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ethics

Lilly is to be the first pharmaceutical company to disclose payments made to US doctors for consultancy services and key …

News

Roche named and shamed for Code breaches

September 2, 2008
Sales and Marketing ABPI, ethics

Roche has been named and shamed in the medical press for breaching the ABPI's Code of Practice. Adverts about the …

News

New European rules on patient groups come into force

July 11, 2008
Medical Communications ethics

Pharmaceutical marketers across Europe have a new set of rules to follow if they want to work with patient groups. …

News

Pfizer declares revolution in US medical education funding

July 3, 2008
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing CME, US, ethics

A revolution in the funding of continuing medical education is on the cards after Pfizer declared it would no longer …

News

Rules on patient groups to change

November 16, 2007
Medical Communications ethics

UK pharma companies have until next July to conform to new rules aimed at making their relations with patient groups …

News

The End of the Junket?

May 10, 2007
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ethics

Once considered a perk of the job by some doctors, trips to glamorous locations paid for by pharma companies are …

News

Sales representatives blow the whistle on rule-breaking call rates

April 11, 2007
Sales and Marketing ABPI, ethics

Pharmaceutical sales representatives are turning to the industry regulator and blowing the whistle on their own companies, when they are …

News

Servier “named and shamed” for sales slides

March 21, 2007
Sales and Marketing ethics

Servier has been publicly "named and shamed" for using inappropriate materials to train its sales reps.Servier and another company, Shire …

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