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'The Right Thing to Do' By Bonnie Flock Kinney
M O R E . . . Conflict Panel Promised Full Access, Urged Not To Stint on Advice By Rich McManus The first official meeting of the NIH blue ribbon panel on conflict of interest policies on Mar. 1-2 was remarkably unconflicted as the 10 members probed federal rules governing employees' outside activities with a combination of incisiveness and wit. Their mission is to provide NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni with a set of recommendations on how NIH might alter its current policies governing conflict. Zerhouni admonished the group to "leave no stone unturned" and to complete its work not in the original deadline of 90 days, but in 60 days — in time for the May 6 meeting of the advisory committee to the NIH director (ACD), of which the panel is a working group. M O R E . . . |