News tagged with 'Conflicts-Of-Interest'

It's long been known that drug makers offer attractive consulting agreements to doctors and researchers, now Sen. Charles Grassley uncovers a conflict between drug makers and a science/health radio host for NPR, whose show has now been taken off the air.

A prominent Emory University researcher is resigning his role in all National Institutes of Health grants until a federal investigation into his relationship with drug companies is resolved.

Emory University psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Nemeroff has been accused of breaking federal research rules by taking in $2.8 million from a drug company and not reporting half of the income. Sen. Charles Grassley is shaking up the rampant conflict-of-interest relationships between doctors and pharmaceutical makers.  Two drug companies say they will voluntarily disclose payments to doctors online next year.

Doctors distribute drug samples to their patients routinely as a way to save them an immediate trip to the pharmacy. But a new study analyzing data from 2004, finds that often dangerous drugs are being distributed to children this way without the appropriate accompanying warning. 

As Zimmer Holdings withdraws the Durom Cup artificial hip socket from the market, the lack of a federal registry for artificial knees and hips means that consumers are kept in the dark when the devices fail.

Senator Charles Grassley is asking the American Psychiatric Association to account for its funding, one-third of which comes from major pharmaceutical companies. In the latest outing, he's uncovered a Stanford psychiatrist who allegedly failed to report $74,000 in compensation from drug makers to the university.