Healthy Skepticism Library item: 17093

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Publication type: news

NY governor wants new regulations on gifts to docs
The Associated Press 2010 Jan 24
http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=73865

Full text:

New York Gov. David Paterson wants to prevent pharmaceutical companies from influencing the prescribing habits of doctors. He’s got a new proposal that would keep the industry from handing out gifts and misleading product information.

Paterson is proposing tougher regulations to restrict drug makers from influencing doctors to promote the use of their prescription drugs. New York would join at least nine states that have enacted some form of legislation affecting pharmaceutical marketing.

Pharmaceutical companies argue Paterson’s measures go beyond the current voluntary code by intrusively regulating the relationships between doctors and experts who would act as consultants for the companies.