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conflict of interest
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Drug company-sponsored training draws fire
Gary Schwitzer, a professor in the University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication and publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, calls…
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Key legislators cozy with health industry
Reporters Larry Margasak and Sharon Theimer of the Associated Press explored close ties between senators poised to make key decisions…
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Calif. nonprofit’s conflicts of interest ‘inherent’
Los Angeles Times reporter Alan Zarembo found unusually high executive pay and a tangle of additional compensation (ranging from rent…
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Kuklo scandal spotlights DoD/Medtronic ties
In the wake of news of a falsified study published in a British bone and joint medicine journal by former…
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Drug companies paid for mock journals
According to TheScientist.com’s Bob Grant, Merck paid health publisher Elsevier to publish six journals earlier this decade, a relationship that…
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Institute of Medicine prescribes ethics overhaul
A pillar of the medical establishment criticized industry freebies for doctors in a wide-ranging report that calls for an end…
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Lewin group linked to private insurers
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors, scolded journalists for not mentioning that Lewin…
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CSPI shuts down Integrity in Science Watch
The ongoing economic crunch has claimed yet another casualty – the Integrity in Science Watch program that was run by…
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AHCJ objects to JAMA policy on whistle-blowers
The Association of Health Care Journalists has sent a letter to the editor of the Journal of the American Medical…
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Investigation of drug-trial suicide earns award
For a story on ethical issues in a drug trial that may have contributed to a patient’s suicide, St. Paul…