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...Two major Harvard teaching hospitals announced Friday that they have adopted an extensive conflict of interest policy, culminating a two-year assessment of hospital ties to the pharmaceutical industry. After over a year of controversy, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital will now prohibit doctors from receiving gifts from pharmaceutical companies. The Partners Commission on Interactions with Industry policy will also require physicians to report their relationships with drug companies to patients. Further, executives of Partners HealthCare—the company that owns the two hospitals—will face strict limitations on their involvement with...
...take to the streets, are led remotely by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 bloodless military coup. Subsequently convicted by the Supreme Court on conflict of interest charges over a land deal, Thaksin is now living in self-imposed exile to avoid serving a two-year prison sentence while another Thai court mulls the fate of about $2 billion of his assets seized on suspicion they were gained through corruption. The former leaders whereabouts are currently unknown, but allegations that he is in neighboring Cambodia have contributed to strained relations between the two countries...
...Bridge wrote. Bridge and McNaughton had met with the administration to discuss the decision to cut the printed version of the Q Guide, but they had not been told about plans to alter the guide’s format, said Douglas R. Lloyd ’09, a two-year veteran of the Q Guide who was helping advise this year’s editors. According to an e-mail sent to students by Harris, the new version of the Q Guide will contain extensive numerical data and the full text of all student responses to the question of whether...
...concerns about Apple are not different from those regarding any other consumer products company in a recession, but they are more subtle. People stop buying PCs and electronics when the economy is bad, primarily because they can. A two-year old computer will still perform 90% of the tasks required by a business or home user. There is nothing wrong with a two-year old Nokia (NOK) cell phone. (See pictures of the history of the cell phone...
...following a two-year, $102 million conversion, the building has been restored to its splendor and reborn as a five-star hotel. Designers cleverly converted a former cashiers' hall into a light and airy ballroom that features the original 19th century glazed roof. Underground, they created a luxurious spa by transforming the bank's jewel vault into a spectacularly lit 66-ft. (20 m) swimming pool and recasting a massive steel-and-copper money vault as a manicure parlor. (See 10 things to do in Rome...