Healthy Skepticism Library item: 11303

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Publication type: Journal Article

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Transparency urged over research payments
Nature 2007 Aug 16; 448:(7155):738
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7155/index.html

Abstract:

Senator calls for public register of drug-company funds to doctors.

Charles Grassley, the Republican senator for Iowa, has said that he will introduce legislation to set up a national public registry of payments made to doctors by pharmaceutical companies.

Four states and the District of Columbia already have laws requiring such disclosures. But, Grassley says, such laws should be rolled out nationwide. “For the sake of transparency and accountability, shouldn’t the American public know who their doctor [sic] is taking money from?” Grassley asked in a speech on the Senate floor on 2 August…