Prescription Project in the News

• "Unfinished, but new ethics policy goes to regents," Associated Press 03/11/2010
• "Drugmakers put doctors on marketing payrolls," The Buffalo News 03/01/2010
• "FDA weighs limits for online ads," Journal of the American Medical Association 01/26/2010
• "Glaxo, Merck disclose how much they're paying U.S. doctors," Miami Herald 01/25/2010
• "Quid Pro Quo," Modern Healthcare 01/04/2010
• "FDA, Congress move to counter expansion of prescritpion drug ads," St. Louis Post-Dispatch 12/09/2009
• "Consumer advocates, states battle Rx data-mining," Baltimore Sun/Chicago Tribune 11/24/2009
• "Massachusetts doctors get big money from drug companies," The Boston Channel 09/25/2009
• "Merck to publish GP payments" Financial Times 09/24/2009
• "Probing doctors' ties to industry," Washington Post 09/16/2009
• "Free drug samples sound good, but they may be too new and too expensive," The Cleveland Plain Dealer 09/09/2009
• "Drug company paid Minnesota doctors $754,127," Minnesota Star-Tribune 09/03/2009
• "IOM calls for action to stem conflicts of interest in medicine," Trial 07/02/2009
• "Two states restrict firms' gifts to doctors," Wall Street Journal 07/01/2009
• "Publication of fake journals raises ethical questions," Nature Medicine 06/30/2009
• "Groups urge FDA to release info on rejected drugs," Reuters 06/25/2009
• "U of M medical schools ethics plan a work in progress," Minnesota Public Radio 06/21/2009
• "More medical schools beef up conflicts policies," Wall Street Journal Health Blog 06/17/2009
• "UCSD's medical school earns B on ethics report," San Diego Union-Tribune 06/17/2009
• "Group rates Florida medical schools' ties to pharmaceutical firms," Miami Herald 06/16/2009
• "Research group probes reps' compliance," Miami Herald 06/05/2009
• "In patients' hunt for care, database a place to start," USA Today 05/14/2009
• "Taking a page, and a pen, from makers of medicines," New York Times 04/13/2009
• "Stanford Medical School to disclose more about industry comp," Wall Street Journal HealthBlog 04/01/2009
• "Physician-Industry Financial Relationships: An expert interview with Allan Coukell," Medscape 03/27/2009
• "Medical device companies set ad rules amid criticism," Reuters 03/05/2009
• "FDA to study designs of direct-to-consumer ads," MedPage Today 01/02/2009
• "No mug? Drug makers cut out goodies for doctors," New York Times 12/31/2008
• "Waxman maps health agenda for next Congress," Wall Street Journal Healthblog 12/09/2008
• "Democrat backs advertising limits for medicines," Reuters 12/08/2008
• "Waxman: Panel can work on health care, energy overhauls at same time," Congressional Quarterly 12/08/2008
• "Abbott videos add safety info," Chicago Tribune 12/04/2008
• "Prescription Project: VNRs on YouTube are ads, must include warnings," Medical Marketing & Media 12/04/2008
• "Consumer group questions online device ads," Associated Press 12/03/2008
• "Group blasts Medtronic YouTube ads," Minnesota Star-Tribune 12/03/2008
• "Medical ads on YouTube attract fire," Wall Street Journal 12/03/2008
• "Watchdog to Abbott: Yank YouTube ads," Crain's Business 12/03/2008
• "Let public see doctors' ties to drug companies," Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11/05/2008
• Senators probe medical-device companies' funding for meeting," Bloomberg 10/16/2008
• "Stanford Medical School restricting industry funding of continuing education," San Jose Mercury News 08/27/2008
• "Stanford to restrict industry sponsorship of continuing medical education," Chronicle of Higher Education 08/27/2008
• "Stanford to limit drug maker financing," New York Times 08/26/2008
• "Drug group urges limits on gifts to doctors," San Francisco Chronicle 07/11/2008
• "Drug industry tightens rules on gift-giving," Boston Globe 07/11/2008
• "Americans want to know about pharma freebies, poll finds," Boston Globe 06/20/2008
• "Doctor's orders: Pitt has a model program on industry ethics," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 06/11/2008
• "New policies stomp out freebies, industry gifts," Hospitals and Health Networks 06/09/2008
• "Pitt gets an 'A' for drug conflict policy," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 06/07/2008
• "Upstate gets healthy marks on ethics," Syracuse Post-Standard 06/06/2008
• "Medical school earns low mark on survey," Albany Times-Union 06/05/2008
• "Pitt, UPMC No. 1 in ethical dealings with drug firms," Pittsburgh Tribune Review 06/05/2008
• "California medical schools earn A's in conflict grading," San Francisco Chronicle 06/04/2008
• "UW gets D on conflicts of interest in nationwide scorecard," Capitol Times 06/04/2008
• "University of South Florida med school gets grade of incomplete," Tampa Bay Business Journal 06/04/2008
• "Curbing big pharma," The New Mexico Independent 06/03/2008
• "Report card ranks medical schools on conflict-of-interest policies," Chronicle of Higher Education 06/03/2008
• "UT Southwestern gets a B in study of drug industry conflicts of interest," Dallas Morning News 06/03/2008
• "Lilly backs transparency on M.D. perks," Indianapolis Star 05/14/2008
• "Ban urged for gifts to doctors, med students," The Charleston Gazette 05/09/2008
• "This is not a gift," Times Daily 05/05/2008
• "Hospitals tighten rules on gifts, meals, education from pharma," ACP Hospitalist 05/01/2008
• "Ban urged on gifts at medical schools," New York Times 04/27/2008
• "Drug companies to reveal grant practices," The Associated Press 04/11/2008
• "Ex-drug salesman: We lured docs with gifts," Boston Herald 03/30/2008
• "Reformers resist aggressive drug marketing tactics," Eugene Register-Guard 03/03/2008
• "Unsales reps divert docs from high cost drugs," The Associated Press 03/01/2008
• "Drugmakers asked to reveal educational grants to doctors," USA Today 02/27/2008
• "A line between docs and drugs," The Boston Globe 02/25/2008
• PittMed magazine examines 'new diet' for doctors at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 02/19/2008
• "Academic Medical Centers and Financial Conflicts of Interest," Journal of the American Medical Association 02/14/2008
• "Doughnuts and Prozac," Lewiston Sun-Journal 01/20/2008
• "Consumers groups, insurers band together to push down drug costs," The Patriot-Ledger 01/18/2008
• "Minnesota hospital rids itself of company trinkets," Associated Press 01/18/2008
• "Peddling Pills," Smart Money 01/10/2008
• "Free drug samples help the well-off more than the poor," AARP Bulletin 01/05/2008
• "Ties that bind," AARP Bulletin 01/05/2008
• "D.C. ban on Rx data mining could face legal battles," iHealthBeat 01/02/2008
• "Doctor combats pull of drug reps," St. Petersburg Times 12/27/2007
• "UMass policy limits doctors, drug maker ties," Boston Globe 12/24/2007
• "Prescription Payday": project featured on ABC affiliate WLS-TV Chicago 12/01/2007
• Prescription Project on Michigan's WJRT Health First 11/19/2007
• Prescription Project profile by Corporations and Health Watch 11/12/2007
• "Prescription for Reform," Katie Couric's Notebook 10/29/2007
• "Critics' fault marketing of children's cold drugs," The Boston Herald 10/19/2007
• "Infant cold medications pulled from drugstores," Washington Post 10/12/2007
• "Drug makers face scrutiny over physician payouts," Politico 10/10/2007
• "Rx data mining: improving health care or invading privacy?" Foster's Sunday Citizen 09/30/2007
• "Clued in to who's prescribing what," Philadelphia Inquirer 09/17/2007
• "Yale's drug dependency," Business New Haven 09/17/2007
• "Senate seeks disclosure on pharma payments to physicians," PharmaTimes 09/10/2007
• "Senate calls for drug companies to disclose gifts to doctors," Kansas City Star 09/08/2007
• "Senators seek public listing of payments to doctors," New York Times 09/07/2007
• "BU and BMC tighten conflict-of-interest rules," The Boston Globe 09/06/2007
• "Getting your money's worth," Minnesota Health Care News 07/31/2007
• "Prescription mining raises millions for doctors' group," San Francisco Chronicle 07/25/2007
• "Institutions taking dim view of pharma freebies," San Francisco Business Journal 07/13/2007
• "AMA faces storm on data sales," Chicago Tribune 06/24/2007
• "Drug companies pay sanctioned doctors," Minneapolis Star-Tribune 06/06/2007
• "Buyer beware applies to medications too," Minneapolis Star-Tribune 05/15/2007
• "In praise of generic options," Minneapolis Star-Tribune 04/29/2007
• "When drug companies court doctors," MetroWest Daily News 04/27/2007
• "Minnesota Health/Seniors will tout drug choices," St. Paul Pioneer Press 04/25/2007
• "Mining our own business," Kennebec Journal 04/13/2007
• "Weed out conflicts in prescription drugs," Minneapolis Star-Tribune 04/04/2007
• "Agressive drug marketing tactics trigger backlash," Nature 04/01/2007
• "US campaign tackles drug company influence over doctors," The Lancet 03/03/2007
• "U.S. campaign aims to end industry gifts, speaking fees, and travel for doctors," The British Medical Journal 02/24/2007
• "Group announces campaign to end conflict-of-interest in prescribing," Drug Daily Bulletin 02/22/2007
• "Project seeks to limit ties between doctors, drug companies," Boston Globe 02/21/2007
• "Prescription Project aims to stem medical conflicts of interest," Integrity in Science Watch 02/20/2007
• "Med school examines donations from pharmaceutical companies," The Cavalier Daily 02/16/2007
• "Prescription Project launches campaign against pharmaceutical conflicts of interest," Philanthropy News Digest 02/16/2007
• "Campaign aims to curb pharma marketing," Communique 02/14/2007
• "Foundation seeks to cut drug firm bribery," The London Times 02/14/2007
• "Research group fights drug company gifts," Chronicle of Higher Education 02/13/2007
• "Prescription Project aims to stem conflict in pharma ads," Boston Business Journal 02/12/2007
• "U.S. drug firms' gifts to doctors attacked," International Herald Tribune 02/11/2007