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...nearly $5 billion a year to make sure you're hearing about their products - a sound investment considering that every $1,000 they spend translates to 24 new prescriptions, according to the House Commerce Committee. But as industry spending has soared, so has public scrutiny. Last week, at a day-long House subcommittee hearing, lawmakers pushed for tougher regulations, taking aim at seemingly deceptive ads by drug companies such as Pfizer and Merck. And on Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which mandates and monitors the content of drug ads, convened to discuss the issue...
According to official accounts, the two sides closed the day-long talks by agreeing to meet again for further talks at an unspecified date. That was seen as another good sign by some. But for all the positive signals, the impediments to real progress remain formidable, and pessimistic observers wondered whether Beijing's apparently more accommodating stance wasn't more motivated by a desire to regain some international credibility on the issue in the three months leading up to the Games. "Of course, we all want to believe that there could be some big changes and that China may take...
Everybody seems to believe it: The way the two parties nominate presidential candidates is a troubled system that needs “reform.”National political leaders and journalists gather today at Harvard’s Institute of Politics for a day-long conference to mull ideas for making those adjustments. Yet a fair question also needs to be asked: If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Rather than sweeping “reforms,” a more do-able proposition is a series of tweaks and adjustments to the current processes.We have...
...Their life-like, agile representations of people—which look as though they could jump back to life at a moment’s notice—sets the figurines apart from the static nature of most statues.The historical context of these porcelains was the subject of a day-long symposium, “Tables of Content,” and a dance and music performance that took place in the Sackler and Fogg Musuems this past Saturday. “I wanted to highlight this aspect of porcelain that people are not familiar with, and try to show...
...economists and business leaders with expertise in India’s economic development gathered at Harvard Business School (HBS) yesterday for the school’s fifth annual India Conference, a day-long event that boasted 10 panels with the unifying theme of “Charging Ahead.” Over 600 people attended the conference, hosted by the South Asian Business Association at HBS. Topics of discussion included the country’s infrastructure, retail, and health care. A panel on private equity and venture capital was one of the most popular events of the day, as attendees...