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Partners Healthcare, which owns Harvard-affiliates Mass. General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recently overhauled its conflict of interest policy, which proponents hail as one of the strictest in the nation...
...fall of 2007, Partners Healthcare embarked on a conflict of interest review to better define the relationship between industry and medicine as well as strengthen oversight of physician activity with drug companies...
...Conflict of interest issues gained national attention the following year, when Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican and the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, alleged that Mass. General psychiatrist Joseph Biederman received $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees from the makers of drugs that he used to treat children for bipolar disorders...
Harvard Medical School began a review of its own conflict of interest policy in Jan. 2009 in conjunction with Harvard’s currently ongoing efforts to develop University-wide recommendations and guidelines...
...that changed when Bill Clinton took office. With the GOP no longer controlling the White House, a new breed of aggressive Republicans - men like Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay and Trent Lott - hit on a strategy for discrediting Clinton: discredit government. Rhetorically, they derided Washington as ineffective and conflict-ridden, and through their actions they guaranteed it. Their greatest weapon was the filibuster, which forced Democrats to muster 60 votes to get legislation through the Senate. Historically, filibustering had been rare. From the birth of the Republic until the Civil War, the Senate witnessed about one filibuster per decade. As late...