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AMSA PharmFree Scorecard
AMSA and the Pew Prescription Project have released the 2009 AMSA PharmFree Scorecard today. The Scorecard is a comprehensive, national overview of all U.S. medical schools and their conflict-of-interest policies.
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IOM Report Validates AMSA PharmFree Campaign
The prestigious group calls on medical students, researchers and doctors to reject gifts of any amount, refuse offers to sit on speaker bureaus, limit their interactions with pharmaceutical company sales representatives and disclose all payments and financial ties to the industry.
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AMSA Joins CT Coalition for Prescription Reform
Medical students from UConn and Yale recently lobbied for a CT state law that would ban gifts to doctors and disclose financial relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and health care providers.
- May 19, 2009 | from The New York Times Vermont Acts to Make Drug Makers Gifts Public The Vermont legislature has passed a law requiring disclosure of all money given any health care provider and bans nearly all industry gifts, including meals, to doctors, nurses, medical staff, pharmacists, health plan administrators and health care facilities.
- May 18, 2009 | from The New York Times Behavior: Small Gifts Found to Influence Doctors A recent study has found that promotional items can indeed influence the attitudes of medical students towards a specific drug.
- April 29, 2009 | from The New York Times Institute of Medicine Calls for Doctors to Stop Taking Gifts From Drug Makers In a scolding report, the nations most influential medical advisory group said doctors should stop taking much of the money, gifts and free drug samples they routinely accept from drug and device companies.
AMSA Policy Change Campaign
