http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/grassley-seeks-more-info-on-conflict-of-interest-policies-at-medical-schools-0465.html America's Premier Online Legal News Source Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:50:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/grassley-seeks-more-info-on-conflict-of-interest-policies-at-medical-schools-0465.html/comment-page-1#comment-18846 Laura Borst Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:47:45 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=465#comment-18846 There are great problems with corruption between pharmaceutical companies and doctors paid to endorse their drugs. This is likely worse with psychiatry and psychiatric drugs because psychiatry does not use objective,biological evidence so much as subjective criteria to define "illnesses" and "improvement". There are great problems with corruption between pharmaceutical companies and doctors paid to endorse their drugs. This is likely worse with psychiatry and psychiatric drugs because psychiatry does not use objective,biological evidence so much as subjective criteria to define “illnesses” and “improvement”.

]]> http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/grassley-seeks-more-info-on-conflict-of-interest-policies-at-medical-schools-0465.html/comment-page-1#comment-18806 Jay Chawla Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:49:36 +0000 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=465#comment-18806 I appreciate the investigations and the reporting. Universities must come together so that they can resist industry (both individual large company and cartel) influence on academic work and place academics and ethics above competitive, university-specific profits. The present fast pace of change and ease of maintaining relationships at a distance make it impossible to maintain an American academic culture without broader institutions with financial and contractual leverage to enforce the culture. Of course, individual ethics would help too, particularly among our highest paid professors. I appreciate the investigations and the reporting. Universities must come together so that they can resist industry (both individual large company and cartel) influence on academic work and place academics and ethics above competitive, university-specific profits. The present fast pace of change and ease of maintaining relationships at a distance make it impossible to maintain an American academic culture without broader institutions with financial and contractual leverage to enforce the culture. Of course, individual ethics would help too, particularly among our highest paid professors.

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