Wednesday, January 23, 2008

And another COI headline (research)

From the New York Times article "Researchers Go Unchecked, Report Says":

Universities are increasingly seeking other sources of income to support research, and drug and device makers have become an important resource. But blending these sources of financing can often present researchers with troubling conflicts of interest, and managing such conflicts has become dizzyingly complex.

Indeed, academic medicine has become so rife with conflicts of interests in recent years that the Food and Drug Administration has complained that it has difficulty finding experts for its advisory boards who do not have a conflict.

Click here to access the NYT article; click here to access the OIG report.

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