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

Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering,
and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed …

Background Competing claims are made about the amount of money that pharmaceutical
companies spend on research and development (R&D) versus promotion. This study …

Objective To evaluate physician characteristics associated with pharmaceutical industry
transfers and prescribing behavior after public reporting under the Sunshine Act. Data …

Backgrounds: Conflict of interest with pharmaceutical companies is one of the most
concerned issues in infectious diseases. However, there is a lack of whole picture of …

Importance Some drugs are heavily marketed through direct-to-consumer advertising.
Objective To identify drug characteristics associated with a greater share of promotional …

Payments from the pharmaceutical industry to US physicians are common. In determining
which payments rise to the level of an illegal kickback under the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) …

A basic concept of economics is that a price stems from the intersection between supply and
demand curves in any common market. However, there are markets where consumers do …

The development of innovative medicines is essential for making progress in preventing and
treating diseases. However, the high price tags put on new medicines do not always reflect …

Background: Personal payments from the pharmaceutical industry to US physicians are
common and are associated with changes in physicians' clinical practice and interpretation …