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PharmFree Steering Committee Application
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National PharmFree Week
Medical students from across the country celebrated National PharmFree Week from Nov 16-21, 2009. Click here for featured items.
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PharmFree Store
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- June 24, 2010 | from New York Times Debate Over Industry Role in Educating Doctors In the latest efforts to break up the often cozy relationship between doctors and the medical industry, the University of Michigan Medical School has become the first to decide that it will no longer take any money from drug and device makers to pay for coursework doctors need to renew their medical licenses.
- June 24, 2010 | from Journal Sentinel Drug Firms Banished from Medical Talks The ongoing controversy over drug industry influence in continuing medical education has taken a sharp twist: Pharmaceutical industry employees will not be allowed to make medical education presentations later this year at the one of the largest medical meetings in the world, the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions.
- June 12, 2010 | from BMJ GlaxoSmithKline Denies it has Settled Thousands of Lawsuits Over Rosiglitazone (Avandia) GSK is being sued by over 13,000 patients who claim that taking rosiglitazone caused them cardiovascular problems.
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