July 14, 2008

Journal Editors Call for Single Set of Financial-Disclosure Rules

By Lila Guterman

Washington

Science and medical journals should institute a universal set of requirements for authors' disclosure of their financial ties, a small group of editors and ethicists said on Friday. They presented their suggested guidelines at a conference here held by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a watchdog group, which also organized the yearlong effort to develop the universal rules.

Critics of industry-science relationships have pressed for decades for researchers to

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