ethics
Pfizer to disclose US clinical trial payments
February 10, 2009Medical Communications ethics
Pfizer has announced plans to disclose payments to healthcare professionals involved in clinical trials. The company will publicly declare all …
UK pharma to consider ban on doctor gifts
February 5, 2009Medical 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 …
Pfizer UK hints at disclosure of payments to doctors
January 19, 2009Medical Communications ethics
The UK might soon follow US companies by publicly declaring payments made to opinion leaders. David Gillen, Pfizer UK's medical …
Getting up to speed with India
January 12, 2009Research 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 …
GSK halts political funding
January 5, 2009Sales and Marketing GSK, ethics
GlaxoSmithKline will no longer make corporate political donations in a bid to make its dealings with governments more transparent and …
Declaring doctor payments
December 16, 2008Research 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. …
Good Publication Practice 2: updating best practice
November 13, 2008Research 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 …
Lilly to reveal doctor payments
September 26, 2008Medical 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 …
Roche named and shamed for Code breaches
September 2, 2008Sales 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 …
New European rules on patient groups come into force
July 11, 2008Medical Communications ethics
Pharmaceutical marketers across Europe have a new set of rules to follow if they want to work with patient groups. …
Pfizer declares revolution in US medical education funding
July 3, 2008Medical 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 …
Rules on patient groups to change
November 16, 2007Medical Communications ethics
UK pharma companies have until next July to conform to new rules aimed at making their relations with patient groups …
The End of the Junket?
May 10, 2007Medical 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 …
Sales representatives blow the whistle on rule-breaking call rates
April 11, 2007Sales and Marketing ABPI, ethics
Pharmaceutical sales representatives are turning to the industry regulator and blowing the whistle on their own companies, when they are …
Servier “named and shamed” for sales slides
March 21, 2007Sales and Marketing ethics
Servier has been publicly "named and shamed" for using inappropriate materials to train its sales reps.Servier and another company, Shire …
