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Re: Conflict-of-interest in medicine continues..
Posted by Myco X on 10/04/08
Wait -- Emory University?
Isn't that located in Atlanta?
Where the CDC is headquartered?
Doesn't the CDC outsource consultation to Emory staff on the subject of mold
and human health?
Just a question...
Myco
On 10/04/08, Deborah wrote:
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>
> Unlikely any different in any other discipline..
>
> October 4, 2008
> Top Psychiatrist Didn’t Report Drug Makers’ Pay
> By GARDINER HARRIS
> One of the nation’s most influential psychiatrists earned
> more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with
> drug makers from 2000 to 2007, failed to report at least
> $1.2 million of that income to his university and violated
> federal research rules, according to documents provided to
> Congressional investigators.
>
> The psychiatrist, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff of Emory
> University, is the most prominent figure to date in a
> series of disclosures that is shaking the world of
> academic medicine and seems likely to force broad changes
> in the relationships between doctors and drug makers.
>
> In one telling example, Dr. Nemeroff signed a letter dated
> July 15, 2004, promising Emory administrators that he
> would earn less than $10,000 a year from GlaxoSmithKline
> to comply with federal rules. But on that day, he was at
> the Four Seasons Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo., earning
> $3,000 of what would become $170,000 in income that year
> from that company — 17 times the figure he had agreed on.
>
> The Congressional inquiry, led by Senator Charles E.
> Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is systematically asking
> some of the nation’s leading researchers to provide their
> conflict-of-interest disclosures, and Mr. Grassley is
> comparing those documents with records of actual payments
> from drug companies. The records often conflict, sometimes
> starkly.
>
> “After questioning about 20 doctors and research
> institutions, it looks like problems with transparency are
> everywhere,” Mr. Grassley said. “The current system for
> tracking financial relationships isn’t working.”
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/health/policy/04drug.html
> ?em
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