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Open access publication fees at the BMJ
Published 17 August 2010
The BMJ announces they are adopting the "author pays" model for research, but only when funders have pledged to pick up the bill
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Outcome Reporting Among Drug Trials Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov
Published 3 August 2010
A new study in Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that drug studies funded by industry are significantly more likely to have favourable outcomes than those funded by the government or non-profit groups.
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Don't Mess with the DSMB
Published 29 July 2010
Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D. and Alastair J.J. Wood writing in the NEJM, call for fundamental changes in the way DSMBs (data and safety monitoring boards) are constituted, are funded, and report, regardless of whether there is a commercial or a public sponsor. They propose that to prevent sponsors from interfering with an ongoing study, the trial steering committee would report only to the DSMB.
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Disclosing Industry Relationships — Toward an Improved Federal Research Policy
Published 14 July 2010
Eric G. Campbell and Darren E. Zinner writing in the NEJM, review moves for more stringent requirements for academic researchers to reveal industry payments.
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An international registry of systematic-review protocols
Published 13 July 2010
Alison Booth and colleagues writing in The Lancet, describe how they are developing an international facility to register the details of ongoing systematic reviews in health and social care.
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Towards more uniform conflict disclosures
Published 30 June 2010
The BMJ reports the updated ICMJE conflict of interest reporting form. Note this editorial was published simultaneously in all ICMJE member journals.
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US senator calls for tougher rules on ghostwriting
Published 30 June 2010
The BMJ reports that Senator Charles Grassley and the US Senate Committee on Finance have called for tougher rules and better disclosure about ghostwriting of journal articles. In a report issued on 24 June they have asked medical journals, medical centres, and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to impose stricter rules.
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Managing Financial Conflict of Interest in Biomedical Research
Published 16 June 2010
Francis S. Collins, National Institutes of Health, writes in JAMA that as the nation's biomedical research agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) must ensure that the research it funds on the behalf of US taxpayers is scientifically rigorous and free of bias. Over the course of more than 65 years and hundreds of thousands of awards, most researchers receiving funds from NIH have proved to be trustworthy stewards. Still, more must be done to retain, and in some instances regain, public trust in the biomedical and behavioral research enterprise.
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Modified intention to treat reporting in randomised controlled trials: systematic review
Published 14 June 2010
An article by Iosief Abraha in the BMJ describes a study to determine the incidence and characteristics of randomised controlled trials that report using the modified intention to treat approach, and how the approach is described.
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EU drugs agency slammed again over data access
Published 9 June 2010
Lynne Taylor reports in PharmaTimes that the European Medicines Agency’s refusal to allow researchers access to trial documents relating to two anti-obesity drugs has been ruled “an instance of maladministration,” by the European Ombudsman.
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US National Institutes of Health proposes new rules on researchers’ ties to industry
Published 4 June 2010
Janice Hopkins Tanne writes in the BMJ that senior figures at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have proposed new, stricter rules for funded researchers on showing their ties with industry.
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ISMPP and MPIP Announce New Medical Publishing Website
Published 29 July 2010
From The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)
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Strategic Medcomms Forum 2010: Reshaping the healthcare conversation
30 September 2010
Oxford University Musuem
The first of a series of annual events where we consider how the global medical and pharmaceutical industry engages with its stakeholders and we identify and debate future directions and implications for medical-marketing activity.
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Organized by NetworkPharma.
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