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When Pembrey, Bygren and Golding looked at the sons of those 166 early smokers, it turned out that the boys had significantly higher body mass indexes than other boys by age 9. That means the sons of men who smoke in prepuberty will be at higher risk for obesity and...
Two major Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals implemented caps on outside pay for senior officials who also sit on boards of pharmaceutical or medical device-making firms effective Jan. 1.
Medical experts have hailed the revised policy at Partners Healthcare—which owns Harvard-affiliates Mass. General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals—as one of the most stringent caps on pharmaceutical companies. The policy, initially released last April, comes as medical school faculty ties to industry...
Partners implemented part of the revised policy in early October, according to Harvard Medical School professor Thomas P. Stossel, who has written extensively about the benefits of industry ties to medicine.
Stossel said that several departments at the two hospitals had brought in lawyers to explain the new Partners policy—as well as the Massachusetts state law passed in Aug. 2008 requiring pharmaceutical and medical device-making firms to publicly disclose gifts worth more than $50.