I spent yesterday attending the American Medical Students Association convention up the road in Houston, and came away very impressed and inspired by the energy of the medical students involved with AMSA's PharmFree campaign (http://www.amsa.org/prof/pharmfree.cfm)--about which I hope to post a more extensive blog in the near future.
Meanwhile, another academic medical center has joined the increasing numbers of those adopting strict policies to keep drug reps and their "free" lunches mostly off the campus. This one is our partner University of Texas institution up the road in San Antonio. Their new policy seems appropriately hard-nosed (http://www.uthscsa.edu/hop2000/word/7.7.3.doc), and can be used to put to shame the other UT campuses that have not yet adopted such policies.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Sunday, July 15, 2007
More Academic Centers Becoming Pharm-Free Zones
Thanks to the weekly update from the Prescription Project (see Links), I learned that a couple more university medical centers have joined the movement to adopt strict policies limiting the access of pharmaceutical industry marketing people and methods to their campuses. Stanford probably got the most publicity when it adopted such a policy a year or so ago.
The recent moves have ocurred at the University of Pittsburgh and UC-Davis. At Davis, the policy was actually an expansion of an earlier policy, adding device and other manufacturers to a policy that previous dealt mostly with drug companies.
The articles listed other campuses (besides Stanford) that had already taken similar steps to ban most industry marketing activities--Yale, UCLA, Michigan, Penn, Vermont, Henry Ford (Detroit), and Kaiser Permanente of Northern California. I believe that Wisconsin was actually one of the first campuses to go this way.
Griffith D. UCD expands its ban on medical freebies: in addition to drug industry, any other vendor doing business with health system is now included. Sacramento Bee, July 3, 2007.
Fahy J. UPMC draws up severe code on freebies. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 2, 2007.
The recent moves have ocurred at the University of Pittsburgh and UC-Davis. At Davis, the policy was actually an expansion of an earlier policy, adding device and other manufacturers to a policy that previous dealt mostly with drug companies.
The articles listed other campuses (besides Stanford) that had already taken similar steps to ban most industry marketing activities--Yale, UCLA, Michigan, Penn, Vermont, Henry Ford (Detroit), and Kaiser Permanente of Northern California. I believe that Wisconsin was actually one of the first campuses to go this way.
Griffith D. UCD expands its ban on medical freebies: in addition to drug industry, any other vendor doing business with health system is now included. Sacramento Bee, July 3, 2007.
Fahy J. UPMC draws up severe code on freebies. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 2, 2007.
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