Seven pharma firms pay US doctors $257.8m
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Executive Summary
Seven pharmaceutical firms made payments totalling $257.8 million to some 17,700 US doctors over 2009 and 2010 for speaking, consulting and other duties, according to research by ProPublica, a US investigative journalism news site that gets funding from philanthropic donations. However, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) says doctor-to-doctor educations programmes are valuable.