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NPA in the News
- “No Free Lunch,” Pitt Medicine profile of NPA board member Dave Evans whose practice refuses gifts, visits, and samples from pharmaceutical detailers
- op-ed by Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) cited the NPA’s support of the Health Partnership Act (3/3/07, Chillico Gazette)
- "Healthcare Activists Call on Congress to Fund War on AIDS", Medical News Today (3/13/07)
- “Prescription for Conflict” (3/17/07, Journal News)
- Maine Public Radio (3/27/07) interview with NPA Campaign leader Ben Schaefer on the NPA’s support of a prescription privacy bill pending in the Maine legislature
- "As drug companies push their pills over TV, some are asking: Is that good for your health?" Columbia News Service (4/1/08)
- Editorial voicing the NPA’s support of a bill before the Maine legislature: LD 838, An Act Protecting the Confidentiality of Prescription Information (4/13/07, Kennebec Journal)
- “Doctors, Lawmakers Resist Drugmakers’ Prying Eyes,” Washington Post (5/22/07) A01
- FDA Week- coverage regarding New Hampshire ruling on prescription data mining
- “Controversy erupts over pharmaceutical marketing policies,” Dental Tribune
- “Law Targets Drug Marketing Practices” Hudson Valley Business News (6/12/07)
- “AMA Faces Storm on Data Sales,” Chicago Tribune (6/24/07)
- “Prescription Mining Raises Millions for Doctors' Group,” San Francisco Chronicle (7/25/07)
- “Drug Industry Mines Physicians’ Data to Boost Sales,” NPR Morning Edition (6/26/07)
- "Opinion Piece Criticizes Sale of Physician Prescribing Data," Kaiser Family Foundation (7/26/07)
- ReachMD, XM Satellite Radio
- "Physicians Should Opt-Out," Bangor Daily News (9/13/07)
- "States Move to Close Drug Data Mining," NPR Marketplace (10/2/07)
- "Improving Health Care or Invading Privacy?" Fosters.com & Laconia (NH) Citizen (9/30/07)
- "Putting a Stop to Pharmaceutical Datamining," op-ed in Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal (9/30/07)
- "Groups Back Physician Gift Disclosure Measure," Congressional Quarterly HealthBeat (10/23/07)
- Profile of Lydia Vaias , NPA Board President, in the alumni magazine of Temple University School of Medicine (Fall 07)
- "Dr. Drug Rep," NYT Magazine (11/25/07)
- "Doctor Combats Pull of Drug Reps" St. Petersburg Times (12/27/07)
- "Gathering Data on Docs," PhillyBurbs.com (1/20/08)
- "Give Doctors and Patients Privacy," Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2/7/08)
- Letter to Editor re: FDA rules on off-label promotions , New York Times (2/23/08)
- "Datamining Should get the Shaft," Seattle Times (2/26/08)
- "Bill Makes it Illegal for Drug Makers to buy Prescription Data for Marketing," Tacoma News Tribune (2/26/08)
- "Physician Gifting Crackdown," Pharmaceutical Executive (3/26/08)
- "Rx 'Data Mining' Legislation Awaits Action in CA, Dies in WA State," Drug Benefit News (4/04/08)
- "Waiting for Health Care," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (4/16/08)
- Letter to Editor re: MA Senate Gift Ban proposal, Boston Herald, (4/21/08)
- Letter to Editor re: Gifts to Physicians, New York Times, (4/22/08)
- Letter to Editor re: ghostwriting and gifts to physicians, Baltimore Sun (4/25/08)
- "Bill Would Let Pharmacies Sell Medical Records," San Francisco Chronicle (5/28/08)
- "Bill Aims to Cure Costly Side Effects of Doctor Gifts," Public News Service (5/28/08)
- "Medical Professionals Line Up in Support of SB 1137," PA Health Access Network (6/23/08)
- "Gift Ban Bill Gains Backers," Boston Globe (6/24/08)
- "Groups Push Health Care," Rocky Mountain News (7/8/2008)
- "Group Kicks of $25 Million Ad Campaign for Health Care" Seattle Post Intelligencer (7/8/08)
- "Curbs eyed for Sales of W.VA. Info to Drug Makers," CNNMoney.com (7/29/08)
- "Lawmakers hear debate on doctor data mining," Charleston Gazette (7/30/08)
- "Sale of Information to Drug Makers Questioned," Times-West Virginia (7/30/08)
- "Brain Dead Bureaucrat Watch: VA Blocks Voter Registration at Vets' Hospital" Huffington Post (8/15/08)
- "National Medical Associations Join Together to Host Voter Registration Drives Across Country" Medical New Today (9/3/08)
- "Will biotech change pharma ethics?" ZDNet Healthcare (9/11/08)
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