The biomedical research community is reacting with concern to a proposal from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to clamp down on
financial conflicts of interest in research.
In this systematic review, the researchers investigate whether the disclosure of
potential financial conflicts of interest (for example, research funding by a beverage company) has influenced the results of systematic reviews undertaken to examine the association between the consumption of highly lucrative sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) and weight gain or obesity.
The lack of awareness of this topic is unfortunate because, in a day and age rife
with financial conflicts of interest for doctors, informed consent medical malpractice may be one of the most common forms of medical malpractice.
Worried that the U.S. Congress will force its hand because of public concern, the National Institutes of Health is moving to change its rules
on financial conflicts of interest for scientists who receive its grants.
Last summer, an investigation by the San Jose Mercury News found that one - third of Stanford University's medical school administrators and department heads now have
reported financial conflicts of interest related to their own research.
Willie Soon released a statement via the Heartland Institute's website following a complaint from the Climate Investigations Center that Soon «failed to
disclose financial conflicts of interest in a newly released paper,» which he co-wrote with Christopher Monckton, David R. Legates, and William M. Briggs.
LT kept going on about how Dr. Tuteur had a «conflict» because she was an OB and had a financial interest in discouraging out of hospital birth... all the while apparently failing to disclose her
own financial conflict of interest.
Still, the reason why critics are right to say Trump should release his taxes — that voters should be able to gauge his tax bill and charitable donations, and that the returns might
expose financial conflicts of interest — apply as much to City Hall as to the White House.
A new study published online by JAMA Oncology quantifies
industry financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs) among authors of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines, work that influences practice and defines drugs reimbursable by Medicare.
Further, in an attempt to make the agency more credible and independent, the law aims to limit the number of scientists with
financial conflicts of interest who can serve on FDA advisory panels.
«The rules, whether to protect human patients and research animals or
prevent financial conflicts of interest, are often well - intentioned, academic officials say,» wrote Malakoff Monday in another After Election 2014 post.
He asserts that making this information available to patients should help achieve the following: ensure patient welfare, promote informed decisions, respect assumed right to know, create trust, decrease legal liability, and ultimately
discourage financial conflict of interest.
He also accepts sponsored research grants from industry, both to test drugs and develop new treatments, although he tries to limit his
personal financial conflicts of interest by requiring that any other consulting fees and honoraria be given directly to charity.
These relationships between oncology and industry are increasing, and concerns exist regarding the extent to
which financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs) can influence medical decisions and physician behavior.1, 2 Thus, there is a pressing need to better understand the effects of FCOIs on both practicing oncologists and academic researchers.
Medical center personnel and other Georgetown University collaborators meeting the definition of «investigator» are listed in a table in the TRACS transmittal form, which triggers an email notification instructing them to login to GU PASS to complete their general and study
specific financial conflict of interest (FCOI) disclosures.
In Utah, around 7 percent of the students are now going to charter schools,
creating financial conflicts of interest between district and charter schools, as both sides are trying to persuade the state legislature that they need more of the dwindling pot of state dollars.
Disturbingly, a number of ethical acousticians from four continents have told me personally of the bullying and harassment they have endured at the hands of their colleagues who have
significant financial conflicts of interest.
But Dr. Pachauri and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are now under intense scrutiny, facing accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential
financial conflicts of interest from climate skeptics, right - leaning politicians and even some mainstream scientists.
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other financial conflict of interest.
Willie Soon failed to disclose
financial conflicts of interest in a newly released paper, according to a complaint from a climate watchdog group the Climate Investigations Center as reported by The Boston Globe in their January 26, 2015 article, «Climate change skeptic accused of violating disclosure rules.»
Last December, Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper published a 2,000 - word article accusing Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of
potential financial conflicts of interest.
These findings indicate that systematic reviews that
reported financial conflicts of interest or sponsorship from food or drink companies were more likely to reach a conclusion of no positive association between SSB consumption and weight gain than reviews that reported having no conflicts of interest.
An investigation into such activities was conducted in 2015 with a focus
on financial conflicts of interest, but it is remarkable that ethical issues and the possible damage to KI's reputation were overlooked.
We hypothesized that industry sponsorship and authors»
financial conflicts of interest would be associated with discordant results and conclusions (with results unfavorable toward artificially sweetened beverages and conclusions favorable toward artificially sweetened beverages).
This difference could be explained by a potential bias in the design, analysis, or interpretation of the results obtained in the SRs, depending on whether the authors reported having
any financial conflict of interest or not.
«New Yorkers deserve to know whether elected officials represented the state are paying their fair share of taxes or hold potential
financial conflicts of interest,» reads the bill memo.
Candidates for high political office, including governor of Connecticut, should fully release their federal and state tax returns so that voters can digest the information and determine for themselves whether there are
any financial conflicts of interests or other details that could affect a person's...
On CNN Thursday, Spitzer said those returns, along with
a financial conflict of interest form that he filed, provided sufficient information for voters to assess his standing.
The amendment's aim is to break the stranglehold on abortion counselling of certain groups which Dorries and Field say have
a financial conflict of interest in advising women seeking terminations, and open up counselling to independent counsellers.
Financial conflicts of interest... Concerns about a people - based funding program... NextGen VOICES... A scientific memoir... Working Life
Complicating matters, many clinical guidelines are written by physicians and members of professional societies who have
financial conflicts of interest with drug, device, or test kit companies.
In the past decade, ethical questions in science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes,
financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicals.