Interesting article.
Janice Reynolds

Getting it right: industry sponsorship and medical research
Patricia Baird
(Canadian Medical Assocation Journal Commentary)

Take-home: The increasing influence and control by the pharmaceutical
industry brings to attention existing gaps in the current protection of the
public interest with regard to the conduct and reporting of clinical trials
in Canada. The promise of highly profitable developments in pharmaceutical,
biotechnology and genomics research makes it important to have appropriate
and transparent resolution of inevitable conflicts of interest. Many new
opportunities have been opened up by our new genomics knowledge, but these
cannot be explored without the trust of citizens. We cannot afford to lose
the confidence of the public in the social contract that allows research
involving human subjects in exchange for medical advances. We will all
lose - the public, researchers, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies
alike - unless we take these lessons to heart.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/168/10/1267

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