E-DRUG: NEJM admits to conflicts of interest
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[copied from Pharm-Policy; WB]
This is quite interesting about new England Journal of Medicine.
Martin Frid
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/02/23/journal.apology.ap/index.html
New England Journal of Medicine apologizes over conflict of interest
February 23, 2000
In an extraordinary apology to readers, the prestigious New England
Journal of Medicine admitted violating its financial conflict-of-interest
policy 19 times over the past three years in its selection of doctors to
review new drug treatments.
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