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Privacy or Funding: You Can Have One But Not Both

Sep 11, 2008

The Wall Street Journal reports that recent criticism of universities' disclosure policies has "some major universities ... reviewing the way they handle funding from drug companies." More than 20 schools have now been contacted by the US Senate Finance committee in an investigation of the situation, and ranking Republican Charles Grassley "wants NIH to start yanking grants to universities that fail to report their researchers' outside income from drug firms, as required by law," the article says.

 

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