Dishonest Medical Research - Will Transparency Bring Integrity?

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8 Feb 2005 10:39:36 -0000

 

Health Supreme Update: Dishonest Medical Research - Will

Transparency Bring Integrity?

 

 

sepp

 

 

Health Supreme Update: Dishonest Medical Research - Will Transparency

Bring Integrity?

 

February 08, 2005

 

 

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National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni has

bowed to congressional pressures and public criticism

announcing a drastic set of new anti-corruption rules for

thousands of scientists and indeed all employees of the

institution. No more stocks, consulting fees or other income

from pharmaceutical companies, is the simple prescription. How

deep seated the culture of unethical and fraudulent medical

experimentation has become is perhaps exemplified by a recent

report in the New York Times which reveals that in experimental

cancer studies, performed at the Stratton Veterans Affairs

Medical Center in Albany, patient records were falsified in the

recruiting process endangering veterans' lives. How to remedy

the situation? Transparency is...

 

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http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/02/06/dishonest_medical_research_will_\

transparency_bring_integrity.htm

 

 

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

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