Congress Intensifying Measures on NIH Extramural Ethics

From The Cancer Letter, July 11, 2008:

Congress is intensifying its drive to strengthen regulation of scientists’ conflicts of interest, as the appropriations measures for fiscal 2009 now include provisions to toughen ethics rules for extramural scientists receiving money from NIH.

The documents, which haven’t been officially released, but were obtained by The Cancer Letter, include an amendment to the Senate appropriations bill and the language in the House and Senate appropriations committee reports that accompany the spending bills.

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