From the Headlines

"Accuracy of Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures Reported by Physicians"
The New England Journal of Medicine, 10/08/2009

"Pressured, Schools Review Ties to Drug Firms"
The Wall Street Journal, 9/11/2008

Attorney General Corbett announces a multi-state, $58 million settlement with Merck over deceptive advertising concerning the safety of Vioxx
www.attorneygeneral.gov

A Celebration of Stanford Faculty and Basic Science Research
Stanford School of Medicine, The Dean's Newsletter

Ghostwriters, Data Manipulation and Dollar Diplomacy:
How Drug Companies Pull the Strings in Clinical Research
By Eric Berger, Special Contributor to Annals News & Perspective
Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 2, August 2008, Pages 137-139

Senator Grassley Pressures Universities on Conflicts of Interest
By Jeffrey Brainard
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 54, Issue 48, August 8, 2008, Page A12

Journals Debate Uniform Conflict-Disclosure Rules for Authors
By Lila Guterman
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 54, Issue 46, July 25, 2008, Page A7

ARE OUR LEADING PEDIATRICIANS DRUG INDUSTRY SHILLS?
by Lawrence Diller
San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate, Sunday, July 13, 2008

Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay
By Gardiner Harris and Benedict Carey
The New York Times, June 8, 2008
Two psychiatrists may have violated rules designed to prevent conflicts of interest in consulting for drug makers.

Letters To the Editor:
Doctors, Research and Drug Payments
June 16, 2008

Survey of Medical Schools Is Critical of Perks
By Gardiner Harris
The New York Times, June 3, 2008
Of 150 medical schools ranked by the American Medical Student Association, most fail to adequately police gifts that drug companies often shower on doctors and trainees.

Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways
By Gardiner Harris
The New York Times, April 28, 2008
The proposed ban is the result of a two-year effort to create policy governing interactions between the medical colleges and drug and medical device companies.

Cigarette Company Paid for Lung Cancer Study
By Gardiner Harris
The New York Times, March 26, 2008
The revelation that a researcher’s study was underwritten by a tobacco company has caused an appearance of bias.

Protecting Patients, Preserving Integrity, Advancing Health: Accelerating the Implementation of COI Policies in Human Subjects Research (PDF)
February 2008, 87 Pages
This report, issued by the AAMC and the Association of American Universities, calls on all medical schools and major research universities to develop and implement institutional COI policies within the next two years, and to refine standards for addressing individual financial COI.

Researchers Go Unchecked, Report Says
By Gardiner Harris
The New York Times, January 19, 2008
The NIH does almost nothing to monitor the financial conflicts of university professors to whom it provides grants, and the huge federal research agency does not want to start now.

Are doctors getting fees or 'bribes'?
Artificial knee and hip makers settle accusations with Justice Dept.
By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 7, 2007

NIH grantees under the microscope?
Research groups are concerned that a new NIH probe into conflicts of interest among extramural researchers may ultimately limit academic-industry partnerships
The Scientist, April 2, 2007

Is Academic Medicine for Sale?
Editorial
NEJM, Volume 342:1516-1518; May 18, 2000, Number 20

Everyone's a Little Bit Biased (Even Physicians)
Daylian Cain, Allan Detsky
JAMA, June 25, 2008
Assertions that scientific training protects scientific integrity countered by multi-disciplinary research review of the human pyschology of bias.

Who's Buying Off Your Doctor?
MSN Money, June 30, 2008
Controversy over a Pfizer anti-smoking drug is fueling debate about whether patients should be told of corporate ties -- or whether disclosure would 'confuse' them.

Truth in advertising? Not for BIO
Prescription Project blog
August 7, 2008
PhRMA and friends take out a full-page ad to remind Gov. Patrick of all industry has done for Massachusetts … and how he can show his appreciation.

Leaders nip, tuck healthcare policy
By Scott Allen
Boston Globe, August 11, 2008