September 22, 2006
Stanford Cracks Down on Gifts to Physicians
Gifts as small as drug samples and logo pens will be banned, and teaching hospitals and research laboratories will be mostly off limits to pharmaceutical- and biomedical-industry representatives under tough new restrictions announced last week by the Stanford University Medical Center.
Stanford joins a growing number of universities, including Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, that are seeking to disentangle their medical schools from potentially corrupting industry influences.
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