Extent and Implications of the Academia-Industry Connection

Introduction Financial ties between the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device industries, and the medical profession create conflicts of interest that can damage the integrity of medical information, threaten the well-being of people and inappropriately raise the cost of care. Physicians, like other humans, are susceptible to influence by money. Despite their protestations that they cannot be […]

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