Ethics conflicts continue: ThernUS National Institutes of Health (NIH) is once again under fire for failing to adequately police the reporting of conflicts of interest by the extramural investigators it funds. In a report issued on 19 November, the inspector-general of the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH's parent agency, examined 184 conflicts at 41 institutions during fiscal year 2006 and found that only six were eliminated by universities - all others were "reduced" or "managed".
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