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Revised PhRMA Code Provides a New Roadmap

Debra Sydnor

Providing physicians with up-to-date, accurate information about the medicines they prescribe clearly improves patient care and advances health care in general. Nonetheless, the public health need for informed and educated HCPs may, at times, create tension with the pharmaceutical industry's perceived drive for profits.

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Are Juries Fair to Physicians?

Linda S. Crawford

Given how large the awards are when there is a verdict against a physician, many in the medical profession and their defense teams have come to believe that juries are random and unfair. The conventional wisdom seems to be that judge-made decisions are a safer bet for med-mal defendants. Is this true?

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Fed Court Confirms It: Peer-Review Participants Are Immune

Janice G. Inman

The Fifth Circuit decision in <i>Poliner v. Texas Health Systems</i> has put another damper on the hopes of unhappy peer-reviewed medical professionals who want to seek monetary damages for their real or perceived injuries. On the other hand, the decision has eased the minds of those who must step up to ensure the quality of medical care, even when it means taking away some or all of a colleague's privileges.

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Four Common Medical Malpractice Defense Myths

Kevin M. Quinley

In adjusting medical malpractice losses, insurers, attorneys and claim professionals encounter recurring opinions on and challenges to effective claims-handling. Here are four common medical malpractice claim fallacies, and the reasons why they wilt under close scrutiny.

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New Foreign Drug Trial Rule Coming

Sheri Qualters

A new U.S. Food and Drug Administration final rule governing clinical trials held in foreign countries will spark painstaking legal review of pharmaceutical companies' protocols for trials.

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