Financial conflicts of interest are exceedingly common in biomedical research. Investigators
with conflicts of interest are more likely to arrive at positive conclusions, perhaps as a result …

Conflicts of interest are inherent to the majority of relationships among individuals and of
these with companies and institutions and, certainly, research involving human beings is no …

Compared with nonfunded or peer-reviewed funded projects, industry-sponsored clinical
trials have traditionally been associated with more positive results. This relationship has …

Although governments, educators, and others have made significant efforts to promote
education that would help students to develop more realistic conceptions of the nature of …

Discussions of conflict of interest (COI) in the university have tended to focus on financial
interests in the context of medical research; much less attention has been given to COI in …

Recent initiatives to improve human health emphasize the need to effectively and
appropriately translate new knowledge gleaned from basic biomedical and behavioral …

Background Conflicts of interest (COI) in research are an important emerging topic of
investigation and are frequently cited as a serious threat to the integrity of human participant …

Corporate funding for academic research has been increasing across all fields of clinical
medicine and science [1]. Formal, explicitly defined institutional relationships between an …

Arthur M. Feldman, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, CTS www. ctsjournal. com 181 Volume 1•
Issue 3 physicians involved in a large variety of potentially constructive research and …

«Il problema è se sia possibile condurre studi di epidemiologia occupazionale e ambientale
finanziati dall'industria e organizzati in modo tale da garantire una totale trasparenza e …