Investigators will review conflicts of interest at NIH

doi:10.1136/bmj.39181.577766.BE

BMJ 2007;334:767 (14 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39181.577766.BE

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Investigators will review conflicts of interest at NIH

Janice Hopkins Tanne

New York

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Daniel Levinson, inspector general of the US Department of Healthand Human Services, has said that his office will reopen 103cases of conflicts of interest among scientists at the US NationalInstitutes of Health (NIH).

The investigation will be carried out by the inspector general'sSpecial Investigations Unit, staffed by five criminal investigators.

Mr Levinson's office was active in prosecuting Lester Crawford,the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, who wasfined nearly $90 000 (£46 000; ${euro}$ 67 000) for falsely reportinghe had sold stock in companies regulated by the FDA while hestill owned the shares (BMJ 2007;334:492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39142.592130.DB)

The special unit will also investigate conflicts of interestamong about 40 000 scientific teams at about 2000 universities,medical centres, and non-profit institutions that receive researchgrants from NIH, potentially a much bigger problem. The NIH'srules on conflicts of interest do . . . [Full text of this article]

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