Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Big Pharma Wants to Buy You Lunch

Jessica Wapner of Slate explains how the pendulum may have swung a bit too far in this piece on the value of industry sponsored medical education, here.

The latest in the Pfizer/Trovan saga comes down from the US Supreme Court today.  The Supremes have kicked the entire mess back to the lower courts by ruling today that it won't stop Nigerians from suing Pfizer in the US.  Technically they didn't rule so much as declined to hear Pfizer's appeal of the lower court ruling from last summer.  We have run down this story a couple of times on this blog, here and here.  Pharmalot's take is here.

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