High impact information on Conflict of Interest

• Conflict of interest. White House seeks uniform policy [1].
• Conflict of interest: PHS readies new rules [2].
• A call about erythropoietin: conflict of interest or investment opportunity [3]?
• HEART Group notification regarding "management of potential conflict of interest". Heart Editors Action Round Table [4].
• Confronting the issues of patient safety and investigator conflict of interest in an international clinical trial of myocardial reperfusion. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO) Steering Committee [5].

Associations of Conflict of Interest with chemical compounds

• Conflict of interest and the credibility of nicotine and tobacco research [6].
• This article is one of three in this issue of Academic Medicine that deal with issues of conflict of interest in university-industry research relationships [7].
• Conflict of interest and purpose in bilirubin screening [8].
• Unfortunately, ideological and social implications, as well as the conflict of interest with illegal narcotic manufacturers and distributors, may considerably hamper the progress in combating addiction (e.g. difficulties in introduction of methadone) [9].
• Although the Discounting, Target Population, Economic Evaluation, Conclusions, and Comparators domains exhibited good quality (0.74 to 0.78), the papers were of poor quality for Conflict of Interest, Incremental Analysis, and Perspective (0.32 to 0.39) [10].

Gene context of Conflict of Interest

• Conflict of interest and the COPA [11].
• This study examines the extent to which scientific and biomedical journals have adopted conflict of interest (COI) policies for authors, and whether the adoption and content of such policies leads to the publishing of authors' financial interest disclosure statements by such journals [12].
• Conflict of interest. Part 2 [13].
• The IRS now allows increased physician participation on governing boards if the organizations institute conflict-of-interest safeguards that prohibit physicians from obtaining private inurements [14].
• The extent of tobacco industry involvement in p53 research and the potential conflict of interest discussed here demonstrate the need for consistent standards for the disclosure and evaluation of such potential conflicts in biomedical research [15].

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