Background: Financial payments from the drug industry to US physicians are common.
Payments may influence physicians' clinical decision making and drug prescribing. Purpose …

Objectives The objective of this review is to explore interactions between physicians and the
pharmaceutical industry including sales representatives and their impact on physicians' …

Importance The association between industry payments to physicians and prescribing rates
of the brand-name medications that are being promoted is controversial. In the United …

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART
DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the …

Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science,
data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell …

Collaborations of physicians and researchers with industry can provide valuable benefits to
society, particularly in the translation of basic scientific discoveries to new therapies and …

Neuromarketing has recently generated controversies concerning the involvement of
medical professionals, and many key questions remain—ones that have potentially …

Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Putatively safe and effective for improving cognitive performance in both health and disease,
products purported to train the brain appeal to consumers and healthcare practitioners. In an …

Background Relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical, medical device, and
other medically related industries have received considerable attention in recent years. We …