Use of Educational Grants by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

   This report has just been released by the United States Senate Committee on Finance. Here is the news release [April 25, 2007]:
NEW FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT FOCUSES ON DRUG COMPANY GRANTS FOR MEDICAL  EDUCATION
Inquiry reveals educational grants as common business practice, but potential for abuse remains
From the executive summary:
Washington, DC – Senate Finance Committee Chairman [...]

Following the script: How drug reps make friends and influence doctors

    Just published in PLoS Medicine:
Fugh-Berman A, Ahari S (2007) Following the script: how drug reps make friends and influence doctors. PLoS Med 4(4): e150
Funding: This work was supported by a grant from the Attorney General Prescriber and Consumer Education Grant Program, created as part of a 2004 settlement between Warner-Lambert, a division of Pfizer, [...]

Open Medicine

At long last, welcome to the first issue of Open Medicine, launched April 18, 2007. This new open access journal represents a milestone in the independence and academic freedom of medical research publishing. 
From the April 18 2007 edition of The Globe & Mail:
A new open-access general medical journal, published in Canada, is about to be born.
Editors [...]

The Learning Healthcare System : IOM Workshop Summary

  A summary of an Institute of Medicine workshop, The Learning Healthcare System, is the first  publication of the IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, and the first in a series that will focus on issues important to improving the development and application of evidence in healthcare decision making. The Roundtable serves as a neutral venue for [...]

Journal of Chiropractic Medicine

  This journal is now published by Elsevier, and the June 2007 issue is now online, and the March issue is Open Access. Link to all issues,  now available by subscription.
From the March editorial by editor Claire Johnson:
For the past several years, the editorial staff has been working diligently to make continued and substantial improvements to the journal. For [...]