Collaborations of physicians and researchers with industry can provide valuable benefits to
society, particularly in the translation of basic scientific discoveries to new therapies and …

Our society has long sanctioned, at least tacitly, a degree of conflict of interest in medical
practice and clinical research as an unavoidable consequence of the different interests of …

Connections between industry and academic medical scientists are not new. It has long
been common practice for manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices to retain …

David Korn, MD FINANCIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN ACADEMIC BIO-medical
research first entered the public conscious-ness during the 1980s, along with a series of …

The IOM's new report on conflicts of interest, issued on April 28, is notable for the breadth
and variety of its proposals, which include standardizing financial disclosures, restructuring …

The problem of conflicts of interest began to receive serious attention in the medical
literature in the 1980s. A conflict of interest is a set of conditions in which professional …

During the Institute of Medicine's 2013 workshop on conflict of interest (COI) and medical
innovation, a presentation from PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry association, delineated …

Background Conflicts of interest pose a threat to the integrity of scientific research. The
current regulations of the US Public Health Service and the National Science Foundation …

As industry sponsorship of clinical research grows, investigators' personal financial
relationships with those sponsors are under increasing scrutiny. The federal government …

The interaction between medical research and for-profit corporations is not new, but it has
expanded considerably in recent years. Some of the recent trends may accelerate the …