Physicians fight back against disclosure rules

摘要

Even as US legislators work to limit ties between academic physicians and industry, a small group of doctors is calling for greater industry collaboration. On 23 July, they gathered at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston to launch a new organization opposed to strict conflict-of-interest rules.rnThe Association of Clinical Researchers and Educators (ACRE) is the brainchild of Thomas Stossel, a haematologist at Harvard Medical School. Stossel has been a vocal critic of conflict-of-interest rules since the late 1980s, when he was on the board of the Cambridge-based biotech firm Biogen and Harvard adopted its first conflict-of-interest policy.