Problems for biomedical research at the academia-industrial interface

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-48

  Weatherall, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical research; Commercialisation of science; Conflict of interest

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT; INDUSTRY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; ORGANIZATION; PUBLICATION; UNIVERSITY; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; COOPERATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RESEARCH ETHICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DRUG INDUSTRY; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0037256229     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-003-0018-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (13)

1. Anon. (2001) Is the university-industrial complex out of control? Nature 409: 119.
2. Olivieri, Nancy F. (2003) Patients' health or company profits? The Toronto story, Science and Engineering Ethics 9: xx-xx.
3. WHO (2002) Genomics and Global Health, WHO, Geneva.
4. Comroe, J.H. and Dripps, R.D. (1977) The Top Ten Clinical Advances in Cardiovascular-Pulmonary Medicine and Surgery Between 1945 and 1975: How They Came About, 2 vols. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
5. Nadis, S. (2000) Med school to relax rules on business links? Nature, 403: 818.
6. Holden, C. (2000) NEJM admits breaking its own tough rules. Science: 287: 1573.
7. Stelfox, H.T., Chua, G., O'Rourke, K. & Detsky, A.S. (1998) Conflict of interest in the debate over calcium-channel antagonists. New England Journal of Medicine 338: 101-106.
8. Friedberg, M. Saffran, B., Stinson, T.J., Nelson, W. & Bennett, C.L. (1999) Evaluation of conflict of interest in economic analyses of new drugs used in oncology. Journal of the American MedicalAssociation 282: 1453-1457.
9. Eichenwald, K., Kolata, G. (1999) Research for hire. New York Times 16 March 1999.
10. Carney, S.I., Nair, K.R., Sales, M.A. & Walsh, J. (2001) Pharmaceutical industry sponsored meetings: good value or just a free meal? Internal Medicine 31: 488-491.
11. Angell, M. (2000) Is academic medicine for sale? New England Journal of Medicine 342: 1516-1518.
12. Smaglik, P. (2000) Gene therapy institute denies that errors led to trial death. Nature 403: 820.
13. Davidoff, F., DeAngelis, C.D., Drazen, J.M., et al (2001) Sponsorship, authorship and accountability, Lancet 358: 854-856.