Medical Schools See Many Ties to Industry

Nearly two-thirds of the department heads at medical schools and teaching hospitals who participated in a recent survey have financial or other ties to industry that could create institutional conflicts of interest, says a report published this month in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Ties between individual faculty members and companies have been scrutinized in recent years, but relatively little attention has been paid to institutional conflicts that arise when

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