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...Harlan M. Krumholz, a professor of cardiology and public health at Yale, who has written extensively on ghostwriting, says that the degree to which he has seen ghostwriting and other distortion tactics used constitutes a major problem for medicine...
...Krumholz says the debate is not about whether industry should be involved in medicine at all, but rather what interactions are ethical, a question the profession must answer if it is to retain patients’ confidence...
...digital-watchdog charge. CRP's site, OpenSecrets.org relaunched recently with a new palette of offerings to let people dig up and expose links between political contributions and subsequent decision making. "Watchdogs are most effective these days when they're not the only ones barking," says CRP executive director Sheila Krumholz. "Our goal is to get the data in as many hands as possible, to enlist others in making the connections between money's influence on policy...
...hard to expect more from financially strapped campaigns, said Sheila Krumholz, of the Center For Responsive Politics. But given the implausibility of $1,000 contributions by dishwashers and cooks - at least to people outside Chinatown - she suggested that "ideally they would go beyond the letter of the law and not accept something so willingly that is dubious regardless of what these folks say." She added: "When you're delivering the fund raising job to a bevy of bundlers, you need to make sure the procedures are tight. It really is incumbent on the candidates, campaigns and political parties to bring...
...fact, Clinton's campaign ranks first among leading Democratic primary candidates in reporting of donor information - 93.3% of contributions came in with full disclosure, according to an analysis by Krumholz's watchdog group, compared with 90.5% for John Edwards and 83% for Barack Obama. The Clinton campaign also was the most forthcoming in describing its vetting methods. Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, "We make our best effort" to root out problems with donors, but he declined to specify the efforts. Likewise, Edwards spokeswoman Colleen Murray said that "every reasonable precaution" is taken to ensure the legality of her campaign...