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By failing to report income, the psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph Biederman, and a colleague in the psychiatry department at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Timothy E. Wilens, may have violated federal and university research rules designed to police potential conflicts of interest, according to Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa. Some of their research is financed by government grants.
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The Wall Street Journal Blogger Scott Hensley writes that two colleagues of Biederman’s also earned at least $1 million in fees from drugmakers from 2000 to 2007 and may not have reported the funding properly. "The discrepancies were found in documents provided to Congressional investigators."
More coverage and ethical commentary on Harvard doctors' failure to disclose drug payments is found in today's issue of eMaxHealth.
Posted June 9th, 2008 by Armen Hareyan
