APPI Bulletin - May 2008

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May 2008


APPI Home Career Center Code of Ethics Resource Links Events Calendar Readings, Resources, & Events of Interest ACRP and APPI have launched a campaign to support a federal effort to honor patient participants in clinical trials. The effort is embodied in House Resolution 248, which encourages public recognition of clinical trial participants, and we need your help. For more information, click here. The April 2008 issue of IFAPP World, a publication of the International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical Physicians, is available for download here. The 15th International Conference on Pharmaceutical Medicine (ICPM 2008), organized by the International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical Physicians, will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 7–10. President Bush has signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) into law. For commentary from the Coalition for Genetic Fairness, click here. For a collection of other perspectives in the Boston Globe, including from Raju Kucherlapati, PhD, scientific director at Harvard Medical School-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics and a speaker at the APPI Presidential Symposium at the ACRP 2008 Global Conference, click here. For information on the June 18 ACRP Hot Topic webinar on GINA, click here. The Call for Proposals for the ACRP 2009 Global Conference & Exhibition with the APPI Physicians Program in Denver has a deadline of June 30, 2008. Details are available at www.acrp2009.org. The deadline for nominations for the APPI Board of Trustees is August 29, 2008. For more information and a link to the nomination form, click here.

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Keeping Pace with the APPI Action

We've had a month to recuperate from this year's ACRP Global Conference & Exhibition and APPI Physicians Program, so now it is high time to build on their success. The deadlines are coming up for the Call for Proposals for the ACRP 2009 Global Conference in Denver and for nominations for the APPI Board of Trustees for 2009....Read More

Researcher Criticizes FDA Plans to Reduce Oversight of Off-Label Drug Use

Proposed guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would allow companies to market more drugs for unapproved uses and are a step in the wrong direction, said a researcher from the Stanford University School of Medicine....Read More

Essay: Now is Not the Time to Stifle the Funding of Science

Healthcare in the United States is expensive, but its funding is crucial because it also is a major contributor to the economy and can better lives, according to an essay in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Because of the cost of healthcare, this is not time to shrink the budget at the National Institutes of Health, which funds medical research that leads to potentially curative therapy....Read More

Unlocking the Promise of Clinical and Translational Science

If you were sick, wouldn’t you prefer a customized medical treatment that works specifically for you? Or a treatment that prevents you from ever getting sick in the first place? The emerging field of clinical and translational science provides the bridging force that transforms lab discoveries into customized, patient-specific therapy, and is the focus of a new journal, CTS: Clinical and Translational Science....Read More

Survey: Physicians Need Better Bedside Manners

According to a new survey, a vast majority of Americans wish their doctors demonstrated the "care" in the term heathcare. The survey unveiled that nearly eight out of 10 polled complain that today’s doctors need better bedside manners; and less than half described their doctor’s recent conduct as attentive, communicative, or compassionate at their last medical visit....Read More

New Iconic Drug Information System is Inspired by Road Signs

Although drug prescriptions are notoriously difficult to read, prescribing errors due to a lack of knowledge of drug properties are a worse problem. Now, a new information icon system has been developed by researchers in France....Read More

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