Tag: Pharmaceutical marketing
Researchers Find Bias in Industry-Funded Continuing Medical Education
Industry-funded continuing medical education (CME) influences physicians to prescribe more opioids, focus less on the consequences.
Addyi, the First “Female Viagra,” Rises Again
From The Hastings Center Report: "Addyi, a drug that made a splash when it was approved in the summer of 2015 as the first...
E-book: “Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands”
Sergio Sismondo's new book from Mattering Press explores how Big Pharma controls drug research and marketing at every stage, maximizing industry profits at the expense...
Pharmaceutical Industry Gifts Linked to Costlier Prescribing Practices
New study finds that pharmaceutical industry gifts to medical providers in Washington D.C. are associated with higher cost, higher volume prescribing behavior.