Federal health regulators have accused a research team led by a Harvard doctor of ethical violations after the scientists failed to inform elderly nursing home residents of serious health risks discovered during a study of hip fractures.
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"Harvard doctors punished over pay; 3 accused of not disclosing consulting fees" July 02, 2011|By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff
Concluding a three-year investigation, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School sanctioned renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Biederman and two colleagues after finding they violated conflict of interest rules.
In a letter to coworkers yesterday, Biederman and Drs. Thomas Spencer and Timothy Wilens said the hospital and medical school "have determined that we violated certain requirements" of the institutions' policies.
They did not specify the nature of the violations. But in 2008, Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, accused the three doctors of accepting millions of dollars in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007, and of failing for years to report much of the income to university officials.
Officials at Harvard and Mass. General released the letter to the Globe, but would not answer questions about the probe. Biederman, Spencer, Wilens, and their lawyers did not return phone calls and e-mails. Grassley's office did not return calls seeking comment....
Biederman is the country's most prominent advocate of diagnosing bipolar disorder in children, even in those under age 6, and using antipsychotic drugs to treat many of them.
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And they paid him about $1.5 million for it?
He became one of the central figures in the growing legal and political backlash against potential conflicts of interest in medicine....
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Who would believe anything coming out of that agenda-pushing globalist grooming ground called Harvard these days?
Also see: Doctor Chooses Money Over Medicine
Not all of them, but....
Related: Journal to scrutinize research of team led by Harvard doctor
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"Harvard doctors punished over pay; 3 accused of not disclosing consulting fees" July 02, 2011|By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff
Concluding a three-year investigation, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School sanctioned renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Biederman and two colleagues after finding they violated conflict of interest rules.
In a letter to coworkers yesterday, Biederman and Drs. Thomas Spencer and Timothy Wilens said the hospital and medical school "have determined that we violated certain requirements" of the institutions' policies.
They did not specify the nature of the violations. But in 2008, Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, accused the three doctors of accepting millions of dollars in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007, and of failing for years to report much of the income to university officials.
Officials at Harvard and Mass. General released the letter to the Globe, but would not answer questions about the probe. Biederman, Spencer, Wilens, and their lawyers did not return phone calls and e-mails. Grassley's office did not return calls seeking comment....
Biederman is the country's most prominent advocate of diagnosing bipolar disorder in children, even in those under age 6, and using antipsychotic drugs to treat many of them.
Related: Prescribing Our Kids to Death
And they paid him about $1.5 million for it?
He became one of the central figures in the growing legal and political backlash against potential conflicts of interest in medicine....
--more--"
Who would believe anything coming out of that agenda-pushing globalist grooming ground called Harvard these days?
Also see: Doctor Chooses Money Over Medicine
Not all of them, but....
