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Lawsuit: Medtronic perks wooed docs

What do a Memphis gentlemen's club, trips to Alaska and ill-gotten patent royalties have in common? They're all perks that Medtronic gave to doctors, according to a lawsuit brought by a former... Read more...

Drug samples divert docs from generics

Here's a study that jumps smack into the debate over pharma freebies. Free drug samples cost uninsured patients more in the long run because they inhibit doctors' prescribing of generic drugs rather... Read more...

Stanford nixes industry-funded CME

The church-and-state separation of drugmakers and continuing medical... Read more...

Study: Psychiatrists choose drugs over therapy

A new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry seems to say incentives from managed care and more choices for psych drugs means Read more...

Americans want doc payments disclosed

Apparently, it's not just a few activist Congressional reps who want doctors to fess up to payments from pharmaceutical companies. A new poll found that Americans want to know whether their... Read more...