PharmedOut Website

[[Ae...]]

There is an interesting website named www.pharmedout.org

 

Their site describes them as:  "PharmedOut is a Georgetown University Medical Center project. Run by physicians for physicians and other prescribers, our goals are to:

 

      Document and disseminate information about how pharmaceutical companies influence prescribing

 

      Foster access to unbiased information about drugs

 

      Encourage physicians to choose pharma-free CME

 

PharmedOut is led by a team of academic physicians; our volunteer network includes nurses, pharmacists, industry insiders, students and others. PharmedOut is directed by Adriane Fugh-Berman MD and the Project Manager is Beth Johnson MS"

[[Be...]]

Looks good, Aesop.    We need more of this kind of action fromt he medical community.  Hope it makes a difference in prescribing practices for some medicines, such as benzos.

[[Ae...]]

PharmedOut has a lot of very informative links.    http://www.pharmedout.org/index.htm

 

There is a link to a Minn. website that lists all the pharmaceutical industry payments by year.  http://www.phcybrd.state.mn.us/main_pay.htm

 

http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/nonprofits/index.html lists the non-profit organizations receiving funding.  The American Psychiatric Association entry is shown, in part, below.

 

According to a Washington Post article on the role of industry in medical meetings, “in several dozen symposiums during the weeklong [American Psychiatric Association] meeting, companies paid the APA about $50,000 per session to control which scientists and papers were presented and to help shape the presentations.” (Washington Post, 5/26/02, p. A10) The 2002 Annual meeting had a total of 42 industry-sponsored symposiums sponsored by the following companies:

 

   *  bott Laboratories

   * AstraZeneca

   * Bristol-Myers Squibb

   * Cephalon

   * Cyberonics, Inc.

   * Eisai, Inc.

   * Eli Lilly and Company

   * Forest Laboratories

   * GlaxoSmithKline

   * Janssen Pharmaceutica

   * Organnon, Inc.

   * Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical

   * Pfizer

   * Shire U.S.

   * Sepracor

   * Solvay Pharmaceuticals

   * Somerset Pharmaceuticals

   * Novartis

   * Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

 

 

[[am...]]

Nice info but the last link returns a page not found error.

[[Ae...]]

Please see the clarification to the last post - I added the links.

[[am...]]

cheers