March 4, 2009

Despite the fact that Harvard Medical School rules say that students on campus are supposed to be

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Sen. Grassley to Pfizer: Provide Details of $$ to Harvard MedicalFaculty

March 2, 2009

NMT, the device manufacturer has instituted legal action to silence criticism by the study’s joint principal investigator,

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US Device Mfg Sues UK Cardiologist for Truth Telling

December 29, 2008

Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption By Marcia Angell, MD, former Editor in Chief of

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Marcia Angell: Drug Co & Doctors: A Story of Corruption

June 12, 2008

According to The New York Times, Senator Charles Grassley "is demanding that the American Psychiatric Association give

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Grassley Probes COI at American Psychiatric Association

March 21, 2007

The information thus obtained is the focus of a front page report in The NewYork Times. The

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Medical Prostitution: Doctors On the Take–Minnesota an example, NYT

February 26, 2007

There is a misperception that because a drug is an FDA-approved prescription medicine, it's safe and effective.

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Counter-Detailing Anti-drug Reps Coming to Educate Doctors

January 21, 2007

A Commentary in the Lancet by John Abramson, MD, of Harvard Medical School, author of Overdosed America,

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Are Lipid lowering (Statins) Guidelines Evidence-Based? Lancet

December 4, 2006

I posted to the IRB Forum (a chatroom) the AHRP Infomail reporting about the Harvard study of

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IRB Forum Not Inclined to Discuss the Most Serious Issue of All

November 6, 2006

A guest editorial in Psychiatry News, by the two psychiatrists who first blew the whistle on an

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Psychiatry News: High Cost of Nondisclosure

November 4, 2006

 Disgruntled NIH scientists who want to suspend conflict of interest rules that prevent them from legally getting

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Conflicts of Interest Hopkins Study: Researchers Don’t Want to Disclose $$

October 30, 2006

Such procedures "are uncomfortable, relatively expensive, and might be taking the focus away" from less invasive, equally

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Medicine In Conflict:Financial Tentacles in Cardiology_Business Week

October 3, 2006

Members of the PRESS in New York and Washington DC will have an opportunity to attend one

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Debate: PhRMA and its relations with Gov, Academia, Doctors and Consumers_Oct 4-5

September 22, 2006

Success in academic psychiatry is not measured in the improvement of patients' mental health, but rather in

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2 letters Re: Dr. Nemeroff Failure to Disclose Conflicts of Interest_WSJ

September 19, 2006

During the Reagan era, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was described by (then) Secretary of Health

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NIH A House of Ill Repute–Scientists for Sale While on Gov Payroll