Audit Finds NIH Conflict of Interest Reports Inaccessible, Incomplete

From The Cancer Letter, Jan. 25, 2008:

Before any institution can start to dispense NIH grant money, it is required to submit a report on handling conflicts of interest on the part of its employees. However, once these reports reach NIH, they become exceedingly difficult to locate, an audit by the HHS Office of Inspector General concluded.

Also in this week's issue: Integrity of Science Project urges medical journals that published papers by the International Early Lung Cancer Action Project to run corrections indicating that proper disclosure was not made.

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