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January 22, 2003

 

National Briefing: Science and Health

 

 

 

 

FOLLOWING THE RESEARCH MONEY About a fourth of university-based medical researchers receive financing from drug companies, ties that sometimes distort study results, according to a new review. Justin Bekelman and Dr. Cary Gross, researchers at Yale, said they found "strong and consistent evidence that industry-sponsored research tends to draw pro-industry conclusions." The new analysis, which appears in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, tries to quantify results from 37 previous studies on the extent and effect of such ties.    (AP)

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