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Conflicts of interest
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Joint Commission finds improved hospital quality
The latest report from The Joint Commission, a hospital accrediting organization, finds that “overall, hospitals are following evidence-based standards for…
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Rule limits Harvard docs’ conflicts of interest
Harvard doctors will now be limited to making $5,000 a year for serving as board members for drugmakers and biotech…
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Snyderman’s MSNBC show is canceled
In a little bit of news that may have gone unnoticed over the holidays, “Dr. Nancy,” a health program on…
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Journal editor linked to spinal implant royalties
John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel continues his coverage of conflicts of interest in medical research and journals with…
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Daschle pushes health IT to Obama, clients profit
South Dakota Democrat and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is not registered as a lobbyist, and has not held…
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MIWatch.org calls for real disclosure reform
Phyllis Vine at MIWatch.org, a site that follows news about mental illness, asks whether drug company disclosures about payments made…
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Report focuses on researchers’ conflicts of interest
There are vulnerabilities in how financial conflicts of interest are handled by NIH-funded researchers, according to a report (PDF, 46…
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Med school prof: Dartmouth Atlas is ‘malarkey’
In a story done in collaboration with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau’s report on a leading physician’s…
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Grassley compares ghostwriting, plagiarism
Sen/ Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) continues his investigation of “medical ghostwriting” with a letter to 10 medical schools asking “what they…
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Hospital says it gives content to short-staffed media
Lindsey Miller of Ragan Communications Inc., a publisher of corporate communications, writes that Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has…