A blue-ribbon panel of the Institute of Medicine released "Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice" a stunning rebuke of how industry has crept into research, clinical practice, continuing education, professional guidelines, and government agencies. The report calls for an end to practices that have undermined confidence in medicine, saying disclosure is also needed to identify payments and gifts to all foundations, nonprofit advocacy groups, and disease specific organizations. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Steinbrook asks whether the heft of this report, coming from a non-partisan scientific advisory body, will have more influence than 16 others which were published between 2001 and 2008.
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