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: Bodily Injury BlogDoctors Disclosing Drug Industry Ties
By Edward Bills
In an effort to create more transparency in the medical world, hospitals across the nation are pushing for full disclosure of their doctors' financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. After the Cleveland Clinic, one of the nation's most prominent medical research centers, became the first to mandate that all of its doctors publicly report their business relationships to pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers in December 2008, many other medical centers have followed suit.
Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on June 07, 2009 (boomark / email).
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In re: Cleveland Clinic to Add Transparency.







