After Controversy Over Tobacco Money Funding Medical School, Uni...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 08/15/2008 - 15:47

We have posted about the controversies arising from recently revealed research agreements between Richmond, Virginia based Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and tobacco company Philip Morris.

These were first publicly discussed in May in a New York Times article. As we posted here , the main issues were that the research agreements themselves were secret; the agreements apparently gave Philip Morris control over all publications arising from the research, since they defined all products of the work as proprietary information...

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