Eli Lilly & Merck to Disclose Speakers’ Fees & Marketing Practices

OPEN MINDS On-Line News Strategic Health Care News On September 24, 2008, Eli Lilly and Company and Merck & Company announced plans to disclose speakers’ fees and other marketing practices. The Lilly plan was announced by company president and chief executive officer, John Lechleiter, Ph.D. He said that Lilly will launch a publicly accessible on-line registry of physician payments in 2009. Merck’s announcement was issued in a press release. The Lilly registry will be an Internet database. When it launches in the second half of 2009, it will initially include payments made in 2009 to physicians . . .