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January 2008 | |||||
The Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators (APPI) is pleased to announce that Charles M. Alexander, MD, FACP, FACE, has been elected president-elect and Peter Rheinstein, MD, JD, MS, FAAFP, FCLM, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the APPI Board of Trustees for 2008. Also elected to the board for second terms were Nadina C. Jose, MD, CPI, Michael A. Markowitz, MD, MBA, MSPH, and Jonathan Seltzer, MD, MBA, MA, FACC....Read More New APPI President and Chair Moves to Enhance Communications Between Trustees and Members Greg Koski, PhD, MD, CPI, who accepted the reins of APPI leadership this month from Ihor W. Rak, MD, has declared that the highest priority of his term is to get members more directly involved in the organization’s activities....Read More Drug Industry Spends Nearly Twice as Much on Marketing as on R&D The pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on the marketing and promotion of drugs as it does on research and development, according to a new analysis in PLoS Medicine....Read More Internists Say They Prescribe Placebos on Occasion In the first study examining American physicians' use of placebos in clinical practice in the 21st Century, 45 percent of Chicago internists report they have used a placebo at some time during their clinical practice, researchers report in the January issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine....Read More Endocrine Society Calls for Greater Minority Participation in Clinical Research A new white paper published by The Endocrine Society recommends that Congress, federal agencies, and academia undertake major new initiatives to ensure effective, broad-based minority participation in clinical research....Read More Physician-Scientist Urges Attention to Heart Effects of Non-Cardiovascular Drugs Current regulatory policies should be strengthened to ensure acceptable cardiovascular safety of drugs developed primarily for non-cardiovascular medical problems, according to a recent presentation made by Dr. Jeffrey Borer, an authority in cardiovascular medicine and surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City....Read More |
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