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Daily Archives: May 21, 2010

NIH Financial Conflict of Interest Notice of Proposed Rule Making

“Partnerships between NIH-funded researchers and industry are often essential to the process of moving discoveries from the bench to the bedside. However, managing Financial Conflicts of Interest (FCOI) can be a major challenge because of the complex relationships among government, academia, and industry. A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which is open for public comment for the next 60 days, proposes a general revision to the existing regulations.”

  • Science: “NIH is responding to growing public concerns that drug company money is biasing research, including a probe by Senator Charles Grassley (R–IA) of several psychiatrists with NIH funding who allegedly failed to disclose hundreds of millions of dollars in consulting income. The proposed regulation revises a 15-year-old Public Health Service rule that largely leaves it up to institutions to decide whether there’s a conflict and how to handle it.”
  • Washington Post – NIH proposes new funding rules to prevent conflicts of interest
  • Introducing Google TV

    “TV meets web. Web meets TV. Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet. Watch an overview video below, sign up for updates, and learn more about how to develop for Google TV.” Via YouTube, Introducing Google TV,… Continue Reading

    ProPublica: EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP’s U.S. Operations

    Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill this news from ProPublica:”Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government contracts, a move that would ultimately cost the company billions in revenue and could end its drilling in federally controlled oil fields. Over the past 10 years,… Continue Reading

    Quantifying Uncertainty in Estimation of Tropical Arthropod Species Richness

    Quantifying Uncertainty in Estimation of Tropical Arthropod Species Richness. Am Nat 2010. Vol. 176, The University of Chicago., 0003-0147/2010/17601-51753$15.00, DOI: 10.1086/652998 “There is a bewildering range of estimates for the number of arthropods on Earth. Several measures are based on extrapolation from species specialized to tropical rain forest, each using specific assumptions and justifications. These… Continue Reading