Purpose: This paper aims to explore gender differences in payments made to physicians by the pharmaceutical and medical device industries via the performance of a systematic review of articles based on the Open Payments Database (OPD). Design/methodology/approach: Three databases (Scopus, Web...

The involvement of the pharmaceutical industry in medical education can be seen as something completely natural. Who better than the producer of the medicine would know how the drug was developed, how the process of it being authorized for sale proceeded, and what the side effects of it are?...

Over the recent years more and more often we can hear in public debate that pharmaceutical industry is using aggressive marketing to increase the market growth. Their marketing actions are addressed mainly to physicians, because doctors are those who raise gains of pharmaceutical companies in...