October 8, 1999

Medical Journal Reviews Policy on Authors' Conflicts of Interest

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

The New England Journal of Medicine has begun a review of its conflict-of-interest procedures following reports that it published an analysis favorable to two popular hair-loss treatments that was written by a professor who had been a paid consultant to the makers of the drugs and who is still receiving research support from the companies.

The analysis, by Vera H. Price, a professor of clinical dermatology at the University of California at San Francisco, ran

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