August 11, 2006

NIH officials have yet to do something about NIH scientists’ conflicts of interest. Following the latest revelations

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Congress to Probe NIH Conflict of Interest Policies

August 1, 2006

Journals Must Exercise Their Authority as Gatekeepers by Vera Sharav If physicians can’t rely on the unbiased

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Journals Must Exercise Their Authority as Gatekeepers

July 23, 2006

"Leading medical journals seem to be having a difficult time disentangling themselves from the pharmaceutical and medical

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NYT Editorial: Our Conflicted Medical Journals

July 20, 2006

Serotonin Syndrome is another term for drug toxicity (poisoning): FDA described the life-threatening effects of Serotonin Syndrome:

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A Matter of Disclosure: Shame on JAMA editor / Shame on Harvard Scientists / FDA Adds SSRIWarnings

July 17, 2006

 U.S. Taxpayers provide $28 billion to support NIH research, and though NIH scientists are the highest paid

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LAT Investigation: NIH Scientist Ties to Pharma

July 13, 2006

In February, 2006, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a widely publicized article authored

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Associated Press: JAMA says it was misled by researchers

July 11, 2006

 Whether their faculty positions are at Harvard or Stanford, one cannot discern a modicum of science to

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Harvard / Stanford–Psychiatrists’ Financial Ties to Industry

July 9, 2006

Paul Jacobs, spent six months investigating financial ties between Stanford University’s 700 faculty members and the bio-tech-medical

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Conflicts of Interest: Stanford University

July 7, 2006

BMJ editor, Dr. Fiona Godlee, commenting on the drug industry’s stranglehold on the scientific medical literature–which has

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Can We Tame the Monster?

June 14, 2006

The House Energy and Commerce investigative report is an indictment of the NIH and its lack of

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Chief NIH Geriatric Psychiatrist Takes the Fifth Refusing toTestify about Tissues Sent to Pfizer

May 30, 2006

“Less and less information seems purely disinterested. You have to check everything out.”   Indeed! Professional medical

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Industry’s Role–NYT_Just how much ‘new research’ can we trust? Sunday Times

May 29, 2006

The conflicts of interest are covert: the reporter notes that "although patients seldom know it, many patient

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$29 Million Donations Tie Drug Firms and Nonprofits_Philadelphia Inquirer

May 22, 2006

“After months of controversy within the American Society of Hypertension that included accusations of industry influence, the

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Cardiologists Revolut RE: Industtry’s Role in Expanding Definition of Hypertension_NYT

May 16, 2006

The revelations in this investigative report deliver an irredeemable blow to the reputation of this preeminent academic

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Bitter Pill: NEJM Waited 5 Years to Report Missing Data from published Vioxx Study_WSJ