Tag Archives: pharmaceutical industry

Bernal Institute chairs’ co-directorship marks a new departure for the Science Foundation Ireland-funded centre

Ireland needs to “beef up” our trade expertise in diplomatic missions in the US

The Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) has accepted that it would have been better if more Irish doctors had consented to being named as the recipients of payments from the pharmaceutical industry than the 55 per cent achieved this year.

Dear Editor, In response to Dr Ruairi Hanley’s recent article on antibiotic resistance (‘It’s very simple, Simon’, IMT, June 10, 2016), please could your columnist spare us the simplistic left, socialism, idealists, baddies Vs right, capitalism, realists, goodies analogies.

Doctors who graduate from medical schools with an active policy on restricting gifts from the pharmaceutical industry are less likely to prescribe new drugs over existing alternatives, suggests a study published in the BMJ.

Dr Ruairi Hanley questions what measures are in place to accommodate female doctors on maternity leave meeting their mandatory professional competence requirements.

The President of the Medical Council, Prof Kieran Murphy, provides further clarity on the relationship between doctors and the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, which he says boils down to the issue of trust.

ProPublica, an independent, non-profit US news service that produces investigative journalism, has published a searchable database of doctors who have taken payments from seven drug companies in the past two years for acting as speakers at pharmaceutical events.