“Grassley ordered the APA to disclose how much of its income was drug money. The answer turned out to be a lot – according to the Times, nearly one-third of the organization’s $62.5 million annual revenue41 in 2006. Some of it came from advertising, but much of it went to educational programs in which drug companies tutored doctors attending APA conferences in the fine points of prescribing their drugs.”

“Grassley ordered the APA to disclose how much of its income was drug money. The answer turned out to be a lot – according to the Times, nearly one-third of the organization’s $62.5 million annual revenue41 in 2006. Some of it came from advertising, but much of it went to educational programs in which drug companies tutored doctors attending APA conferences in the fine points of prescribing their drugs.”

— Gary Greenberg