Last summer, Alkermes held a paid presentation at the American Legislative Exchange Council conference, a consortium of lawmakers and private companies that drafts pro-business legislation for introduction at the state level.
A.H.V.S.: royalties, Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, OUP; paid educational presentations, BI, GSK, Teva-Lundbeck, Orion-Novartis, Merck, UCB.
B.B.: travel support, US NMSS, ECTRIMS, MSIF, MS Ireland; consultancy, Biogen Idec, Genzyme; grants/grants pending, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research; paid educational presentations, honoraria for symposia at the American Academy of Neurology.
E.H.: travel expenses, US NMSS, ECTRIMS, MSIF, MS Ireland; consultancy, Biogen Idec, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Grifols; grants/grants pending, Biogen Idec; speaking fees, Biogen Idec, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Bayer Healthcare, Sanofi-Aventis; paid educational presentations, Novartis.
The company has organized junkets, and paid doctors to give presentations extolling OxyContin's virtues.
At Voilà!, attention is paid to presentation, and the color contrast of the green, white and black pleased both the eye and the palate.
Yet the salad's ingredients seemed haphazardly dumped on the plate — a tipoff that little heed would be paid to presentation.
But getting drugs prescribed for unapproved uses can increase a drug's sales, so companies often skirt the rules by sponsoring seminars where doctors are paid to make presentations promoting their drugs, including the "off label" uses.
WHEN I got paid for my presentations, to me it was always very good money, even $25," recalled Mr. Steger, who in 1986 led the first dog-sled team to journey unsupported to the North Pole.
"Their use of the Internet and social media takes place at a time in life when there's a lot of attention being paid to self-presentation".
