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Drug industry tightens rules on gift-giving

Trade group is opposing Mass. effort to ban practice

By Kay Lazar
Globe Staff / July 11, 2008

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The trade association for drug companies announced yesterday a tightening of its voluntary code restricting industry gifts to doctors, even as the association has been forcefully lobbying against a tougher ban that is likely to be debated in the Massachusetts House next week. (Full article: 939 words)

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