In a statement, Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association BMAA), which represents doctors, said: "Whilst we agree that GSK should not directly sponsor doctors going to meetings, we are satisfied that they will continue to financially support education.
Ironically, because of the current human resource crisis in medicine, the United Nations Development Programme UNDPP) are sponsoring doctors as United Nations Volunteers at USD 40,000 per doctor per year to fill gaps that cannot be filled by Malawians.
Ms. Myhr's study was one of two issued here at a conference on African drug prices sponsored by Doctors Without Borders and other groups pressing drug companies to cut prices.
Correction: February 20 , 2002 Wednesday A picture caption with the Red Hook Journal article on Feb. 3, about preparations at Showman Fabricators in Brooklyn for a mobile exhibition sponsored by Doctors Without Borders, misidentified the worker who was hanging photographs.
"It's really a disease of poverty," said Françoise Begaux, who worked with villagers for five years as part of a research project sponsored by Doctors Without Borders, and who now works for another aid group, Terma Foundation.
In a classic drug trial, run and financed by the producer of the drug (the sponsor), doctors interacting with patients (the trial investigators) describe in case report forms those adverse events occurring in each patient, and the sponsor then codes them and enters them in clinical safety databases.
Currently more than 50 UNICEF sponsored two-doctor mobile medical teams are working among the most affected communities in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh – vaccinating children against measles and conducting active health surveillance.
The letter is the second time in two years that Mr. Kohl and Mr. Grassley have shaken things up during the annual meeting of heart doctors sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, the Columbia-linked organization in which Dr. Leon has long played a leading role.
In research sponsored by Medtronic, doctors followed 524 patients who received the InSync pacemakers.
However, the two hospitals in Kisoro District lacked cleft lip and cleft palate surgical teams of their own, but relied on surgical interventions under the auspices of "Flying Doctors" sponsored by African Medical and Research Foundation (St. Francis Hospital, Mutolere, Medical Superintendent, personal communication).
