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SPOTLIGHT: JAMA loosens rule silencing those alleging conflicts of interest
Traditionally, the Journal of the American Medical Association has had a policy in place demanding that those alleging that study authors had undisclosed financial conflicts keep their mouths... Read more...
Groups planning phaseout of drugmaker dollars
With heat increasingly mounting on providers to turn away pharma dollars, major trade groups in the industry had already begun cutting back on their dependence on industry contributions. For example,... Read more...
Leapfrog safe practices survey may have captured 'excessive noise'
A survey of hospital performance conducted by the Leapfrog Group in 2006 may suffer from "excessive noise" according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Safe... Read more...
Battle brewing among physicians, JAMA over conflict-of-interest investigations
The Journal of the American Medical Association wants to keep whistleblowers' accusations confidential until conflict-of-interest disputes are thoroughly investigated and resolved, according to a... Read more...
MRSA levels dropping in ICUs
According to a government study that appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association involving nearly 600 hospitals nationwide, MRSA is on the decline in hospital intensive care units.... Read more...
Rapid-response teams have little effect on cardiac arrest deaths
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that rapid-response teams have little to no effect in reducing cardiac arrest or deaths in hospitals. The study took... Read more...
Vitamins E, C ineffective in preventing heart disease
Two commonly used vitamins--E and C--apparently do nothing to stop heart disease in men, and may in fact, have negative affects according to a study by Drs. Howard Sesso and J. Michael Gaziano of... Read more...
How effective are B vitamins against cancer?
In a study of women who took vitamins B-6, B-9 and B-12 daily for slightly more than seven years, researchers found that the vitamins had neither a positive nor a negative affect on their subjects in... Read more...
Doctor gifts banned by WI Medical Society
In a move similar to one made last year by the University of Pittsburgh, providers of... Read more...
