NIH Management Reprimanded Scientific Review Administrator Who A...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Sun, 10/26/2008 - 13:26

In the "early days" of Health Care Renewal, i.e., in 2006, we posted a lot about the story of wide-spread conflicts of interest affecting top leaders at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

After the NIH conflict of interest rules were relaxed in the mid-1990's, some top NIH managers received five- and six-figure consulting payments from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Some failed to disclose these payments, even when writing journal articles favoring the products of the companies for...


 

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