Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are companies that contract with health plans and insurance companies to administer their prescription drug benefits, negotiate with drug companies, manage their lists of covered drugs (formularies), and the like. Unfort

The Prescription Project, National Physicians Alliance, Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) and US PIRG have submitted public comments opposing an FDA Draft Guidance that would allow drug companies and their salespeople to distribute reprints of medical

** Breaking News: To see updated information about the cost of Treximet, see our more recent post on this topic, from October 14, 2008: Was PAL right about GSK’s Goober Grape Drug, Treximet? Yes and No. ** GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) sells a popular brand

A whole lot of bloggers have taken on last week’s ghostwriting study in JAMA. Here are a few of our faves: National Physician’s Alliance, the RxP partner group of physicians to which JAMA author Joseph Ross belongs, has this analysis of the latest chapter

We write frequently on this blog about "off label" marketing -- that's the practice of prescription drug & medical device companies illegally promoting their products for uses or conditions that are not approved by the FDA. Here's the "elevator" version

We here at Prescription Access Litigation focus on pharmaceutical issues in the United States - how much drugs cost, how they're marketed, etc. And as many problems as there are here in the U.S. with people getting access to medicines for life-threateni

Ghostwriters... The big story from the Pharm Country this week is ghostwriting, in the wake of reports that some of the papers published about Vioxx were penned by Merck but attributed to physician authors.  If you haven’t seen the story, you need not lo

We bring you the third installment of our new feature, PAL Coalition Member Spotlights. In these Spotlights, we introduce you to our coalition members and give you the opportunity to hear from them about the work they do and the pressing concerns of their

PAL extends an enthusiastic welcome to the National Education Association (NEA) to our Coalition. Founded in 1857, NEA has over 3.2 million members, making it the nation's largest professional employee association! NEA's work at every level of public e