News tagged with 'Conflict-Of-Interest'

Georgetown University discussed the potential for a conflict-of-interest between doctors and pharmaceutical companies that partially fund continuing-education for doctors.

Headlines from around the Internet concerning safety, health, and injury avoidance for Thursday, June 24.

U.S. District Judge who on Tuesday overturned the administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling for six months, reportedly owns stock in the oil industry according to a 2008 financial disclosure form disclosed by the group, Judicial Watch.

The FDA proposes making committee members disclose additional conflict-of-interest with drug and device makers.

A nonprofit representing 32 medical societies has released a new code of ethics that stresses disclosure of financial conflicts from drug and device makers by doctors and medical journalists.

Drugmaker, Pfizer, is now disclosing what it pays to doctors in speaking fees and consulting in a downloadable, searchable database, an early jump on the Physician Payments Sunshine provision.

Dr. Julie Gerberding has left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as director and is heading Merck's vaccine division, responsible for bolstering sales domestically and overseas.

Universities are often not told about the money their academics receive from device makers as consultants and product developers.

The Washington Post offered to lobbyists, lawmakers and corporations, nonconfrontational and off-the-record access to reporters for $25,000 to $250,000 -  a direct conflict-of-interest to the Code of Ethics followed by American journalists  - "Deny favored treatment".  

Young people in Eastern Iowa appear to be overdosing on prescription drugs for ADHD. About 2.5 million kids are on the stimulants, with use increasing, despite a recently published article that suggests a link between the medications and sudden cardiac death. 

Dr. Tim Kuklo made $800,000 from medical device maker, Medtronic, for work as a consultant and during the time he shopped a professional article on a Medtronic product for publishing. The Army says the article was "falsified" by Kuklo, who is no longer an Army surgeon. 

Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the woman named by the Obama administration to head the Food and Drug Administration, will first have to unload some of her wealth, estimated to be between $20 to $40 million, making her among the wealthies of the president's new appointments.  

After the public embarassment at Harvard Medical School concerning faculty on the receiving end of lucrative consulting fees, the school and its teaching facilities are revisiting and revising conflict-of-interest policies.  

The Wisconsin Medical Society has joined a growing number of professional societies, academic medical centers and legislators that agree physician gifts from the pharmaceutical industry are questionable, if not unacceptable forms of influence.

Dr. Martin Philbert heads an FDA expert panel about to make a pivotal ruling about the safety of the bisphenol A- the plasticizer found in baby bottles and consumer products. The FDA and Congress is looking into why he failed to disclose a $5 million donation from industry.