March 3, 2000
'New England Journal of Medicine' Admits Overlooking 19 Authors' Conflicts of Interest; MIT Press to Refresh Its Coverage of Architecture, Art, Media Theory
In a remarkable mea culpa, editors at The New England Journal of Medicine last week admitted to having overlooked 19 violations of the journal's conflict-of-interest policy in the past three years. In each case, the journal published a review of treatments for an illness despite the fact that one or more of the review's authors had told the journal about financial connections to drug companies.
"The authors had informed us of these arrangements, and the
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