"Harvard puts tighter limits on medical faculty; Restricts involvement with health care industry" by Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff | July 21, 2010
Harvard Medical School will prohibit its 11,000 faculty from giving promotional talks for drug and medical device makers and accepting personal gifts, travel, or meals, under a new policy intended partly to guard against companies’ use of Harvard’s prestige to market their products.
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The conflict-of-interest rules also place stricter limits on the income faculty can earn from companies for consulting, joining boards, and other work....
Harvard, which provides continuing medical education for tens of thousands of doctors worldwide, also will erect a more solid firewall between itself and health care companies during these courses....
Marketing signs will no longer be allowed in bathrooms....
That's pretty tasteless for Harvard, isn't it?
They have a condom machine, too?
Harvard, like other top medical schools, has come under intense scrutiny in recent years over the ties between some of its faculty and pharmaceutical and device companies, particularly from Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who investigated several Harvard physicians accused of breaking medical school and federal conflict-of-interest rules....
Harvard administrators would not comment on whether the new rules, had they been in place, would have prevented the public run-in with Grassley. He has accused Dr. Joseph Biederman, a well-known Mass. General child psychiatrist and a leading advocate of diagnosing and treating bipolar disorder in children, of failing to make timely disclosures to Harvard of more than $1.5 million that drug companies paid him in consulting and speaking fees....
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