National Institutes of Health Scientists Broke Rules, Panel Says

NIH Scientists Broke Rules, Panel Says

Deals With Companies Went Unreported, Probe of Potential Conflicts of Interest Finds

By Rick Weiss

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 23, 2004; Page A19


Researchers at the National Institutes of Health violated federal rules by engaging in lucrative collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and not reporting those arrangements to ethics officials as required, according to documents released yesterday as part of an escalating congressional investigation into conflicts of interest at the agency.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61798-2004Jun22.html

Still not shocked.

so many scandals, they're hardly news anymore.

If you ask me how I know, I will have to take your family hostage...but take it from me. The incestuous relationships between pharmaceutical companies and the NIH is legend. NIH is one of the most glorified Fedaral institutions...a bipartisan pet of the US Congress and the WH (because everyone is afraid of dying so they think funding NIH at obscene levels will make them immortal), but i digress. The high cost of your medicines and drugs is one of the results of this incest between the NIH, FDA, and the pharmaceutical companies. Just follow the money (and in the case of NIH...follow the grants and contracts). It's much too complicated to discuss here but take it from me because i was a researcher there...the public doesn't know the half and the half they do know is that they are paying way too much for their medicines and drugs.

My guess is that the administration has so screwed up the deficit for years to come that they are looking for any excuses to cut back on some of their favorite entities. Thus, there will not only be investigations of NIH but of other agencies of most favored and least oversighted status.