Rule limits Harvard docs’ conflicts of interest
Harvard doctors will now be limited to making $5,000 a year for serving as board members for drugmakers and biotech companies, under a new rule intended to reduce the conflicts of interest in medical research.
Scott Hensley explains and rounds up the coverage on NPR’s Shots blog, with links to stories in The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Hensley writes that the new rules also prohibit taking company shares as compensation and from serving on drug companies’ speaker bureaus.
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A wrap of the latest news in conflicts of interest – Croakey on
Thu, 11th Feb 2010 3:33 am
[...] in three months for giving such talks. Meanwhile, this piece in the BMJ (pay for full access) and this blog report how Harvard University is tightening regulations for doctos and and scientists who consult [...]
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