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Publication type: news

NY governor wants new regulations on gifts to docs
The Associated Press 2010 Jan 24
http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=73865


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New York Gov. David Paterson wants to prevent pharmaceutical companies from influencing the prescribing habits of doctors. He’s got a new proposal that would keep the industry from handing out gifts and misleading product information.

Paterson is proposing tougher regulations to restrict drug makers from influencing doctors to promote the use of their prescription drugs. New York would join at least nine states that have enacted some form of legislation affecting pharmaceutical marketing.

Pharmaceutical companies argue Paterson’s measures go beyond the current voluntary code by intrusively regulating the relationships between doctors and experts who would act as consultants for the companies.

 

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...to influence multinational corporations effectively, the efforts of governments will have to be complemented by others, notably the many voluntary organisations that have shown they can effectively represent society’s public-health interests…
A small group known as Healthy Skepticism; formerly the Medical Lobby for Appropriate Marketing) has consistently and insistently drawn the attention of producers to promotional malpractice, calling for (and often securing) correction. These organisations [Healthy Skepticism, Médecins Sans Frontières and Health Action International] are small, but they are capable; they bear malice towards no one, and they are inscrutably honest. If industry is indeed persuaded to face up to its social responsibilities in the coming years it may well be because of these associations and others like them.
- Dukes MN. Accountability of the pharmaceutical industry. Lancet. 2002 Nov 23; 360(9346)1682-4.