{"id":34362,"date":"2015-06-03T11:32:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=34362"},"modified":"2015-06-03T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T10:32:38","slug":"the-bmj-today-are-conflicts-of-interest-in-medicine-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/06\/03\/the-bmj-today-are-conflicts-of-interest-in-medicine-so-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Are conflicts of interest in medicine so bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"journals\"<\/a>\u2022 The NEJM<\/em> has been wondering if conflicts of interest in medicine are really so bad? In a blistering essay<\/a>, Robert Steinbrook, Jerome Kassirer, and Marcia Angell, former senior editors for the NEJM<\/em> call the series of articles \u201cA seriously flawed and inflammatory attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 The BMJ<\/em> has a blanket moratorium on conflicts of interest in our education article<\/a>, not because we believe everyone who receives money from industry is biased, but because, as the authors say \u201cThe essential issue is that it is impossible for editors and readers to know one way or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"varenicline\"<\/a>\u2022 After varenicline\u2019s introduction on the market, reports of suicidality and depression emerged in post-marketing surveillance and eventually led to warnings issued by regulatory agencies in Europe and a black box warning in the United States\u2014but new research uses data<\/a> from the whole Swedish population to look at these risks\u2014find out more in the video abstract<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"jeremyhunt\"<\/a>\u2022 Ten ways to be secretary of state for health. If you could peer inside the head of a politician, what you find? I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d want to; but Nicholas Timmins and Edward Davies have\u2014they\u2019ve written up their extensive interviews with 10 of the UK\u2019s health secretaries into a book, and we\u2019ve published some of their favourite quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Duncan Jarvies<\/strong> is the multimedia editor, <\/em>The BMJ.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 The NEJM has been wondering if conflicts of interest in medicine are really so bad? In a blistering essay, Robert Steinbrook, Jerome Kassirer, and Marcia Angell, former senior editors for the NEJM call the series of articles \u201cA seriously flawed and inflammatory attack.\u201d \u2022 The BMJ has a blanket moratorium on conflicts of interest […]<\/p>\n

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