JAMA should change its policy on investigating competing interests, AMA says

In this News article by Janice Hopkins Tanne (BMJ 2009;339:b2936, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2936) we mistakenly said that both Dr Jonathan Leo and Dr Jeffrey Lacasse wrote to JAMA and the New York Times claiming non-disclosure of support from a drug company for a study published in JAMA. Dr Lacasse has told us that, although he “wholeheartedly supports the actions that Dr Leo took,” his own involvement was limited to co-authoring letters to editors of medical journals. Dr Lacasse added that he had never contacted JAMA about conflicts of interest or contacted the media.