A large global study published today in the leading US medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine finds the media is often failing to cover the potential harms of new medical tests which are designed to detect the early signs of disease in healthy people. The study also found media stories often fail to…
The COI Program is excited to announce that TEAMS physicians in the College of Medicine Regional Physician Network have been given access to disclose in UFOLIO. All TEAMS physicians have been notified of their new access and should submit disclosures of outside activities and interests by April 30, 2021. If…
WASHINGTON — The medical device industry gave doctors consulting fees, lunches, lodging, and other incentive payments worth $904 million between 2014 and 2017, per a new study — more than $80 million more than the pharmaceutical industry lavished on physicians over the same time period. Experts told STAT that the…
A new study published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines if the source of physician payment for a medical opinion influences whether the physician finds that a coal miner has black lung disease. The study is the first to look at this relationship in the workers’…
Nearly all women who deliver babies through cesarean section at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City receive injections of the blood thinner heparin for weeks after the procedure, to prevent potentially life-threatening blood clots. Obstetric leaders there say that’s good medical practice because the formation of those…
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has a water problem. But it has nothing to do with its losing battle against rising seas, rivers that routinely spill their banks or increasingly violent storms that pummel its coast. This problem is buried in aquifers deep beneath the state’s swampy landscape, where the…
This letter is from various academic associations (AAU, APLU, COGR, ACE, AAMC) to OSTP requesting consultation with the academic community and a comment period before implementation of changes in regards to NSPM-33 and NSTC JCORE “Recommended Practices for Strengthening the Security and Integrity of America’s Science and Technology Research Enterprise”. …
The legislation would call for greater oversight on research and travel and ban public entities from entering language and cultural exchange programs with seven countries. Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed his support Monday for a series of bills being introduced in the state Legislature designed to “combat foreign influence and…
A former University of Florida (UF) professor and researcher and resident of China has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining $1.75 million in federal grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by concealing support he received from the Chinese government and a company that he founded in China to…
England’s new university regulator is facing questions about a potential conflict of interest. Lord Wharton has been appointed chair of the Office for Students (OfS) but is also a paid adviser to a firm Aquind, which wants to build a cable linking the UK and French electricity grids. The £1.2bn project…
