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October 16, 2009 - New Conflict Rules at Medical Journals:

  • Editors of some of the world's top medical journals will soon begin to demand more stringent, uniform reporting of conflicts of interest by researchers. The requirements will go beyond existing disclosure rules at many medical journals to include items such as financial relationships involving spouses, partners or minor children. Also required will be disclosure of nonfinancial conflicts, such as religious and political affiliations. Such disclosures are used in medical journals to alert readers to potential biases in research. For further detailed information, click here.

July 23, 2009 - Surgeon Faces Probe of Research:

  • A top surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles, has lost his position as executive director of its spine center and faces an investigation by the school into his research after allegedly failing to disclose he was being paid by several companies whose products he was studying. For further detailed information, click here.

July 15, 2009 - Academia and the Company Coin:

  • As the economic downturn chockes spin-outs from academia, a new spate of newly minted university-industry partnerships are springing up. Failing to address the financial conflicts in such partnerships could spell trouble for both faculty and drug companies. For further detailed information, click here.

June 17, 2009 - UCSD's Medical School Earns B on Ethics Report:

  • UCSD received a B on a new national score card measuring how well medical schools insulate their students, faculty and doctors from the money, free product samples and other gifts offered by drug and medical-device companies. For further detailed information, click here.

May28, 2009 - UCLA Surgeon Didn't Report Payments:

  • A top spine surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles failed to disclose payments from medical companies while he was researching their products' use in patients, according to records obtained by congressional investigators. For further detailed information, click here.

April 16, 2009 - National Public Radio: Relationship Beween Drug Companies and Doctors:

  • Listen to a discussion between drug companies and doctors on National Public Radio. You will need speakers or a headset to listen to this 9-minute discussion. To access and listen, click here.

February 4, 2009 - Harvard will Stiffen Rules for Staff at Medical School:

  • Harvard Medical School plans to strengthen its conflict-of-interest rules for doctors and researchers, amid a US Senate investigation into several faculty members and a new state law that will make public some of the payments doctors receive from pharmaceutical and medical-device companies. For further detailed information, click here.

January 23, 2009 - New Rules on Doctors and Medical Firms Amid Ethics Concerns:

  • Those are the marching orders that Smith and Nephew, a leading maker of artificial hips and knees, has given executives and sales representatives attending a big meeting of orthopedic surgeons next month. The company has told them to limit their interactions with doctors to 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the “business” hours of the convention of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. For further detailed information, click here.

January 8, 2009 - Medical Journal Changes Its Policy After Criticism by Group:

  • Criticism by a national accreditation group over a lung cancer study that failed to disclose an author’s financial conflicts has led The New England Journal of Medicine to change its procedures. For further detailed information, click here.

January 5, 2009 - No Mugs, but What About Those Fees?:

  • New pharmaceutical industry guidelines should stop most drug companies from distributing a wide range of trinkets and office supplies designed to keep their brand names before doctors as a subliminal inducement to prescribe high-priced drugs. For further detailed information, click here.

December 31, 2008 - Child Psychiatrist to Curtail Industry-Financed Activities:

  • A prominent Harvard child psychiatrist will curtail activities financed by the drug industry while Massachusetts General Hospital investigates his failure for years to disclose the consulting fees he received from drug makers. For further detailed information, click here.

December 2, 2008 - Cleveland Clinic Discloses Doctors' Industry Ties:

  • The Cleveland Clinic plans to announce this week it has begun publicly reporting the business relationships that any of its 1,800 staff doctors and scientists have with drug and device makers. For further detailed information, click here.

November 14, 2008 - Harvard Medical School Students Push to Codify Conflict of Interest Polices:

  • In early September, the first-year Harvard Medical School students in a biochemistry class expected to learn about protein degradation. Instead, they came out of lecture ready to push for more comprehensive conflict of interest policies. For further detailed information, click here.

October 16, 2008 - Senators Seek Information About Money Going From Medical Device Maker to Doctors:

  • Senators Chuck Grassley and Herb Kohl are continuing their campaign to shed light on financial relationships between the pharmaceutical and medical device industries and medical doctors. For further detailed information, click here.

October 15, 2008 - NIH Freezes Large Grant to Emory:

  • The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has stopped payments on a $9.3 million grant to Emory University as it investigates whether the school and one of its prominent faculty members, psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff, properly disclosed his consulting work for drug makers. For further detailed information, click here.