Image via Wikipedia   Almost two-thirds of US doctors either ban drug reps or require them to make appointments. The bad news comes from the twice-a-year survey of doctors conducted by SK&A and reported by PharmaExec.com. Between June and December 2008, the percentage of docs who require appointments rose from 31.4 percent to 38.5 percent. [...]

Image via Wikipedia Pharma outsourcing lowers costs but has significant downsides, according to the New England Journal of Medicine (and reported by the New York Times). According to the NY Times, an article about the globalization of clinical trials published in The New England Journal of Medicine ”raises questions about the ethics and the science of increasingly conducting [...]