December 8, 2006

Study Finds Conflicts of Interest on Many Research-Review Boards

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Many members of institutional review boards did not regularly disclose their own financial conflicts of interest in proposed research on human subjects that they evaluated, and some voted on such projects, in apparent violation of federal rules, according to a study published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The findings suggest a need for academic institutions to work harder to educate members of the review boards, or IRB's, about rules for disclosing and handling

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