FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 350:327-330 January 22, 2004 Number 4 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear PubMed Citation

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is widely regarded as the world's premier biomedical research institution. The doubling of the NIH budget over the past decade reflects the trust that the American people place in this federal government agency and its employees, as well as the importance of its work. Recently, however, this confidence has been called into question by a report in the Los Angeles Times about consulting payments from pharmaceutical companies to high-ranking NIH officials.¹

According to Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, the director of the NIH, to date there is "no evidence that patients were harmed or that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Iserson, K. V., Cerfolio, R. J., Sade, R. M. (2007). Politely Refuse the Pen and Note Pad: Gifts From Industry to Physicians Harm Patients. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 84: 1077-1084 [Full Text]  
• Parascandola, M. (2007). A Turning Point for Conflicts of Interest: The Controversy Over the National Academy of Sciences' First Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Policy. JCO 25: 3774-3779 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Sharp, R. R., Yarborough, M. (2006). Informed Trust and the Financing of Biomedical Research. J Law Med Ethics 34: 460-464  
• Brown, S. D., Daly, J. C., Kalish, L. A., McDaniel, S. A. (2006). Financial Disclosures of Scientific Papers Presented at the 2003 RSNA Annual Meeting: Association with Reporting of Non-Food and Drug Administration-approved Uses of Industry Products. Radiology 239: 849-855 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Gold, J. L. (2006). Conflict over Conflicts of Interest: An Analysis of the New NIH Rules. J Law Med Ethics 34: 105-110  
• Stossel, T. P. (2005). Regulating Academic-Industrial Research Relationships -- Solving Problems or Stifling Progress?. NEJM 353: 1060-1065 [Full Text]  
• Benos, D. J., Fabres, J., Farmer, J., Gutierrez, J. P., Hennessy, K., Kosek, D., Lee, J. H., Olteanu, D., Russell, T., Shaikh, F., Wang, K. (2005). Ethics and scientific publication. Adv. Physiol. Educ. 29: 59-74 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Steinbrook, R. (2005). Standards of Ethics at the National Institutes of Health. NEJM 352: 1290-1292 [Full Text]  
• Steinbrook, R. (2004). Conflicts of Interest at the NIH -- Resolving the Problem. NEJM 351: 955-957 [Full Text]