March 2009

Do do do do….do do do do don’t leak this… this may sound like a line from the MC Hammer 1990 music hit U Can’t Touch This. …

Remember how in high school, we would put each other down, and make rude comments about each other.  As we got older, we…

This weekend, there are two major editorials providing an alternate perspective on research and conflict of interest.  The…

  In his weekly address, President Barack Obama announced the appointments of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as Commissioner of the…

This week in Burrells Reports Peter Pitts executive director of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and Public…

After receiving input from over one hundred organizations, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (the…

The day after the US Supreme Court ruled against Wyeth in an FDA pre-emption case.  Congress has gotten in the act to level…

In a change of course, the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced to The New York Times that…

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court in Wyeth vs. Levine, struck down the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pre-emption…

The New York Times (The Times) yesterday published two articles on Harvard and their changes to conflict of interest…