September 9, 2005
NIH Issues Rules on Conflict of Interest
The National Institutes of Health has announced final rules to manage conflicts of interest among its staff scientists. The final rules are looser than those released on an interim basis in February, and which were widely criticized.
The agency's director, Elias A. Zerhouni, said the final version, released last week, was deliberately revised and clarified in part to preserve the in-house researchers' freedom to collaborate with colleagues in academe. For example, NIH scientists may
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