Monthly Archives: September 2011

Taxpayers lose out in Supreme Court ruling on who owns federally funded research

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Share The current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains a thoughtful essay about who owns federally funded research: the universities who receive the funding or the private companies who contract with academic researchers to develop a specific … Continue reading →

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New heart medication study was too flawed for publication, former journal editor says

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

Share At a Harvard event last night honoring the former Grassley investigator Paul Thacker, someone in the audience wanted to know how the topic of Thacker’s talk — Dollars for Doctors: Who owns your physician? — was related to the … Continue reading →

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Coverage of Rick Perry’s vaccine misadventure misses the point

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

Share Recent media coverage of the heated debate over Texas Governor Rick Perry’s endorsement of mandatory HPV vaccinations for school-age girls in his state seems to be missing a few crucial points. First, many of the medical groups who strongly … Continue reading →

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French lawmakers may mandate conflict of interest disclosures

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Share At a time when our own government has stepped back from requiring true transparency about conflicts of interest in medicine, French lawmakers seem to be heading in a much bolder direction. According to Nature Medicine, the French national assembly … Continue reading →

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