News tagged with 'Grassley'

The FDA plans to increase misdemeanor prosecutions of executives in the pharmaceutical and food industry after a lax performance in that area.

The individual mandate may be subjected to a U.S. Supreme Court challenge some GOP oponents to health care reforms suggest.

Merck along with other drug companies realize that transparency will be required under health care reform. As promised, it has issued a list of doctors who it pays to promote its products and educate the public.

While parents are finding that the cost of a college education climbs, they might look at who the heavy earners are among college employees.  This survey, from the Chronicle of Higher Education, finds those in the medical schools making multi-millions of dollars, so are some athletic coaches.

Dr. Joseph Biederman, the father of child psychiatry, is suspended from participating in clinical trials while Harvard University and its teaching hospital, Massachusetts General, probe his conflicting interests with the pharmaceutical industry. At issue - why he failed to report $1.6 million from Big Pharma while his work with children promoted drug use. 

Cleveland Clinic, one of the nation’s leading medical centers, will announce this week on its Web site, the decision to fully disclose all of its scientists’ and doctors’ financial ties with drug companies and medical device makers.

It's long been known that drug makers offer attractive consulting agreements to doctors and researchers, now Sen. Charles Grassley uncovers a conflict between drug makers and a science/health radio host for NPR, whose show has now been taken off the air.