January 21, 2008
NIH Doesn't Check Academics on Financial Conflicts of Interest, Auditors Say
Washington
The National Institutes of Health has failed to adequately oversee hundreds of financial conflicts of interest among university biomedical researchers, partly because the reports universities sent the agency about the conflicts lacked any details, according to a new audit report.
The report, by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, describes a dysfunctional system that appears
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