U.S. Offers Guidelines on Researchers' Conflicts of Interest

The Department of Health and Human Services proposed new guidance last month for universities on dealing with conflicts of interests when corporations finance biomedical research. Critics immediately faulted some of the recommendations as either too lenient or too rigid.

The recommendations reinforce federal rules that require researchers who receive both federal health-research grants and financing from corporations to disclose any financial interests, like stock ownership, in those

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