Conflicts of Interest

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• Australia Pulls Guidelines For ADHD Medicines

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 575
  Why? There are concerns that the guidelines, which are based, in part, on work by a Harvard University researcher, may have been undermined due to his financial ties to drugmakers, according to The Daily Telegraph . A Congressional investigation revealed last year that Harvard’s Joseph Biederman had earned far ...
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• Houston Mayor Bill White to run for governor? We’ve got the new candidate’s details

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 545
  If you haven’t heard already, there’s more talk today that there’s a new face in the race for Texas governor, and it looks a whole lot like Houston Mayor Bill White. That’s the word from Chron.com as well as the Texas Tribune, with the word attributed in both cases to unnamed sources. Both are saying [...]
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• Houston parking commissioners launched ‘booting’ firm after crafting rules for program

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 545
  Two members of the city of Houstons Parking Commission who helped craft the rules for the citys "booting" program for illegally parked vehicles last year joined forces as partners in a new business just before the new rules were approved by the city. Their new business venture? Its a company that boots illegally ...
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• ON TERRORISTS, JUSTICE RECUSED -- EDITORIAL EXCLUSIVE, The Washington Times

  
  COURAGE IN AMERICA — Authority: 167
  Attorney generals advisers have conflicts on detainee cases The Obama Justice Department is having problems prosecuting terrorist cases because top department attorneys have conflicts of interest. According to documents obtained exclusively by The Washington Times, Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, No. ...
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• EDITORIAL EXCLUSIVE: On terrorists, Justice recused

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Attorney generals advisers have conflicts on detainee casesThe Obama Justice Department is having problems prosecuting terrorist cases because top department attorneys have conflicts of interest. According to documents obtained exclusively by The Washington Times, Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, No. 3 ...
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• MIWatch.org calls for real disclosure reform

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  Phyllis Vine at MIWatch.org , a site that follows news about mental illness, asks whether drug company disclosures about payments made to doctors go far enough and whether anyone actually pays attention to such disclosures. Vine raises the question of doctors taking part in “educational settings, including grand ...
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• IHEs Lax In Reporting Research Conflicts

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 437
  Few universities make required reports to the government about the financial conflicts of their researchers, and even when such conflicts are reported, university administrators rarely require those researchers to eliminate or reduce these conflicts, government investigators found. And half of universities do not ask ...
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• Report focuses on researchers’ conflicts of interest

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  There are vulnerabilities in how financial conflicts of interest are handled by NIH-funded researchers, according to a report (PDF, 46 pages) released today by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General. Among the findings: 90 percent of the grantee institutions rely solely on ...
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• Med school prof: Dartmouth Atlas is ‘malarkey’

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  In a story done in collaboration with The Philadelphia Inquirer , Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau’s report on a leading physician’s provocative attack on the Dartmouth Atlas gets off to a lively start: As he raced through the U.S. Capitol this fall, Dr. Richard “Buz” Cooper, a 73-year-old University of ...
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• Few Universities File Conflict Of Interest Reports

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 575
  Few universities file required reports to the National Institutes of Health about financial conflicts held by their researchers, and even when such conflicts are reported, universities rarely require researchers to eliminate or reduce conflicts, The New York Times reports. The paper writes that a report will be ...
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• Call for NIH to fund research on ethics, conflicts of interest

  
  Schwitzer health news blog — Authority: 475
  I was among 100 researchers, clinicians and ethicists who this week signed and sent a letter (pdf file) to the National Institutes of Health asking them to fund research on medical ethics, conflicts of interest and industry influence on prescribing...
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• Academic Researchers’ Conflicts of Interest Go Unreported

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  A report finds that universities often do not disclose faculty members’ conflicts of interest in government-financed studies.
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• Covering Health: First year’s most popular posts

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  With a year of posts behind us, we thought it would be a good time to look back and see what posts proved to be the most popular – or at least the most read: Lewin group linked to private insurers Autism news raises question: When is an embargo not an embargo? Hensley joins NPR’s expanding health team ...
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• Grassley compares ghostwriting, plagiarism

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  Sen/ Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) continues his investigation of “medical ghostwriting ” with a letter to 10 medical schools asking “what they are doing about professors who put their names on ghostwritten articles in medical journals — and why that practice was any different from plagiarism by students.” ...
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• A Conflict of Interest Among Judges of the 2009 National Book Awards in the Young People’s Literature Category?

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 496
  The winners of the 2009 National Book Awards will be announced tomorrow night. Will the results in the category of young people’s literature be affected by the sponsor’s decision to allow one judge to judge the work of her illustrator? This year’s shortlist for the National Book Award for young people’s ...
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• Researchers ask NIH to fund ethics research

  
  Medical Ethics blog — Authority: 100
  In the wake of growing scandals over conflicts of interest and ghostwriting in medical research, more than 100 top researchers from around the world -- including several from Canada -- wrote to the U.S. National Institutes of Health this morning asking it to fund ethics research. We are writing to ask NIH to fund ...
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• 100 Researchers Ask NIH To Fund Ethics Research

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 575
  Dozens of researchers, clinicians, and ethicists sent a letter asking the NIH to fund research on medical ethics, conflicts of interest, and industry influence on prescribing behavior. Why? They note that stimulus funding has increased the NIH budget significantly, but the agency has “no mechanism for funding ...
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• NewsRadio 740 KTRH interviews Texas Watchdog on Houston mayor tax return issue

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 545
  The NewsRadio 740 KTRH AM morning team interviewed Texas Watchdog this morning about Houston Mayoral candidate Annise Parker about Parker making public her tax returns.Right after the Nov. 3 election that led to the runoff, we asked for the tax returns of both Parker and opponent Gene Locke to see if there are any ...
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• Guest Post: Robbed Blind By A Lipstick Wearing Pig

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Submitted by Davos Robbed Blind By A Lipstick Weari ng Pig "Noone in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the recordsfor years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money byunderestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plainpeople." ~ H.L. Mencken Each and ...
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