States Look to Limit Drug Company Gifts to Doctors, March 2008
Pharmaceutical companies spend an estimated $30 billion annually marketing their products, around $7 billion of which is aimed directly at doctors. To date, only a handful of states require drug makers to reveal how much in gifts, meals, travel and other valuable perks they dole out directly to the medical personnel on the receiving end of that largess. But that could soon change, as more than a dozen states are now considering measures to force drug companies to publicly disclose the freebies they give to doctors each year. [click title to continue reading]
Rich Ehisen has been a reporter and editor for almost 30 years, and is currently the editor in chief at Capitol Weekly, which covers the California State Capitol in Sacramento. For two decades previous he was the managing editor of the State Net Capitol Journal, a LexisNexis publication that covers state public policy issues and trends nationwide. In that role he was also the producer and host of the SNCJ Deep Dive podcast and the SNCJ Hot Issues webinar series. He is also the producer and moderator of The Open Mic: Writers in Their Own Words, a podcast and YouTube show that features his discussions on writing with crime fiction, mystery and thriller authors.
