Accountable and transparent

摘要

Toughened rules for how US biomedical scientists report financial interests came into force last month. The changes, which affect scientists who receive grants from the government, are welcome - although in one respect they do not go far enough. About 38,000 researchers, most of them recipients of grants from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world's largest medical-research funder, will need to comply with the beefed-up rules. The changes update regulations put in place in 1995 to ensure that investigator bias doesn't sway the design, conduct or reporting of research.