{"id":5320,"date":"2010-11-18T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2010-11-22T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:14:19","slug":"drug-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/11\/18\/drug-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Firms Say They\u2019ll Take Closer Look at the Docs They Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/pharma-payments-to-doctors-with-sanctions\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5323\" title=\"101117_pharmas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/101117_pharmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Several of the nation&#8217;s largest pharmaceutical companies said they plan  to tighten screening of physicians who promote their drugs after  ProPublica reported last month that more than 250 of them had been  sanctioned for misconduct. Eli Lilly and Co. said that next year, for the first time, it would hire  an outside firm to search for state disciplinary actions against its  hired speakers and advisers. Lilly, the seventh-largest company by U.S.  prescription sales, did not previously conduct such screening and was  unaware of the dozens of actions ProPublica found against its speakers. &#8220;Your reporting has raised valid and important questions, which we have  taken steps to address,&#8221; spokesman J. Scott MacGregor said in a  statement. AstraZeneca, the third-largest firm, is &#8220;evaluating new ways to retrieve  state disciplinary actions that would allow us to act on that  information in a timely manner,&#8221; spokesman Tony Jewell said in an  interview. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/pharma-payments-to-doctors-with-sanctions\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA |  Company: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Eli Lilly | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/pharma-payments-to-doctors-with-sanctions\" target=\"_blank\">Propublica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of the nation&#8217;s largest pharmaceutical companies said they plan to tighten screening of physicians who promote their drugs after ProPublica reported last month that more than 250 of them had been sanctioned for misconduct. Eli Lilly and Co. said that next year, for the first time, it would hire an outside firm to search&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,106,42],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-astrazeneca","tag-eli-lilly","tag-pfizer","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}