conflicts of interest

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• Letter: Weighing a Vaccine’s Risks

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  To the Editor:.
  3 days ago

• No Prohibited Conflict of Interest for Commission Chair Who Was Employed by the Municipality

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 130
  Plaintiffs appealed a decision of the town of Deep River planning and zoning commission (PZC) that granted a special exemption application allowing co-defendant Haynes to excavate/quarry gravel on property owned by Incarnation.  After public hearings, the PZC voted unanimously to approve the plan for an initial ...
  5 days ago

• Canterbury Regional Council Conflicts of Interest

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 639
  Th Auditor-General has just ruled that four members of the Canterbury regional Council illegally voted on a resolution that affected them financially (more than normal members of the public). The report is very interesting for those who deal with conflicts of interests, and doesn’t reflect well on the ...
  1 week ago

• Addressing Drug, Biotechnology, and Device Companies Payments to Physicians: the Thai National Health Assembly

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 516
  We have frequently discussed how financial relationships among physicians, other health care professionals, and health care academics, on one hand, and drug, biotechnology, medical device and other health care corporations may have adverse effects on patient care and medical teaching and research.  A first step ...
  1 week ago

• Shock! CDC failed to check whether vaccine advisers had financial conflicts of interest!

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 170
  Stacy Summary : I’m sure this was a totally innocent lapse. Advisers on vaccines often had conflicts of interest
  1 week ago

• Shock! CDC failed to check whether vaccine advisers had financial conflicts of interest!

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
  Stacy Summary : I’m sure this was a totally innocent lapse. Advisers on vaccines often had conflicts of interest
  1 week ago

• Conflicts Of Interest – And Making That Extra Dollar

  
  Ian On The Red Dot — Authority: 425
  If the people’s trust is valuable to our leaders, then it seems to me that they would be wary not only of actual corruption but the perception of corruption. One of the reasons why Minister Mentor took some of his adversaries to court was because he felt they had defamed him. It would seem, at least to Minister ...
  1 week ago

• Mental Health Year in Review: 2009

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 559
  Another year is over, and so brings us to the close of another year of great stories, great friends, and great insights into the world of psychology — our annual Year in Review of Mental Health. Conflicts of Interest, Lawsuits and Transparency Perhaps 2009 will be noted as the year of reckoning for pharmaceutical ...
  1 week ago

• Loretta Sanchez’ website overlooks Latinos and hints at corruption

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 494
  “Uh, oh!  They’re onto me…“I was checking out Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez’ website today and found some disturbing language in the “About Loretta” tab.In the 111th Congress, Sanchez is a leader in securing America’s border with Mexico.  A strong advocate for Southwest border security, she ...
  1 week ago

• Report finds poor ethics policing at CDC

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  ATLANTA — The governments top public health agency frequently failed to police its outside experts for conflicts of interest, according to a new government report released Friday. The report looked at how well the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked for and dealt with conflicts among about 250 ...
  1 week ago

• An In-Depth Evaluation Of Morgan Stanleys Real Estate Portfolio - Part 1

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 737
  As was pointed out yesterday , Morgan Stanleys massive Real Estate empire is starting to unravel building by building. With a building here, five buildings there, the shareholder pain, and the writedowns start accumulating. But it was not always makeshift tears and walking away from buidings when your equity is ...
  1 week ago

• Backscratching in Our Time — Jonathan Lethem and Laura Miller

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 122
  The latest in a series of occasional posts on authors who praise each other’s books. Jonathan Lethem on Laura Miller’s The Magician’s Book : “Conversational, embracing, and casually erudite, Laura Miller’s superb long essay is the kind that comes along too rarely, a foray into the garden of one book ...
  1 week ago

• Daschle pushes health IT to Obama, clients profit

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 135
  South Dakota democrat and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is not registered as a lobbyist, and has not held public office since he lost a re-election bid in 2004. Instead, Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz report for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, that Daschle has existed in a nebulous limbo that’s ...
  1 week ago

• Advisers on Vaccines Often Have Conflicts, Report Says

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 135
  Is there any part of our government that isn’t in the pockets of big business or any of it’s advisers who don’t have a conflict of interest?  I truly am at the point of despair when it comes to thinking our government can do anything just because it’s the right thing to do. WASHINGTON — A new report finds ...
  1 week ago

• Advisers on Vaccines Often Have Conflicts, Report Says

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  A report says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did a poor job of screening medical experts for conflicts when it hired them to advise the agency on vaccine safety.
  1 week ago

• The Door Revolves: Tufts Medical School Dean Goes Back to Merck

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 516
  A little news item in the Newark Star-Ledger : Merck announced the appointment of Michael Rosenblatt as executive vice president and chief medical officer . The appointment, which was announced this morning by the company, is effective immediately. Rosenblatt will be responsible for bringing greater focus to ...
  1 week ago

• British Medical Journal Interviews Dr Aubrey Blumsohn

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 516
  About a year after we started Health Care Renewal, in late 2005, we wrote multiple posts about the complex and unfortunate case of Dr Aubrey Blumsohns attempts to keep a research project honest.  Our most recent summary of the case was here .  The case involved suppression and manipulation of research, ...
  1 week ago

• The video Pfizer doesnt want you to see

  
  Medical Ethics blog — Authority: 106
  Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has asked a judge to order that a video be take off YouTube, saying it could prejudice juries in upcoming court cases. Its the latest twist for a company caught for months in allegations of ghostwriting . The video, entitled Prempro News Segment , was made by the law firm behind a ...
  1 week ago

• Airport food vendor SSP America hosts champagne and lobster party at Bush airport

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 467
  The Houston Airport System wants to invite you to a soiree this evening featuring champagne and lobster.HAS says it isn’t using public money to fund the party. Instead, SSP America, an airport concessionaire operator, is the real host and ready to serve up four-star dining along with valet parking.The airport’s ...
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• Pharma, Conflicts Of Interest And Fingerpointers

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 547
  The controversy over conflicts of interest is taking a twist as a former Merck executive and a medical journal are teaming up to lash out at doctors who have criticized drugmaker behavior in published studies, and have also served as expert witnesses in product-liability litigation. To wit, Laurence Hirsch, a former ...
  2 weeks ago

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