Australian Doctors Call For New Rules Against Drug Firm Influence
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Australian physicians are pushing the government to adopt stronger regulations to block the close relationships between drug makers and health professionals. A review of Medicines Australia's code of conduct has attracted thousands of suggestions to tighten ethics rules, complete with fines as much as five times higher than current limits for violations. Some groups want fine limits to be increased to nearly $725,000. Others called for probes of what they call increasing sponsorship of "professional development" activities in clinics they say are disguised promotion of certain drugs. (Click here for more