conflict-of-interest
10 stories tagged "conflict-of-interest"
The Mesothelioma Drug in This Month's Headlines Was Tested in Fifteen People
The scientist whose lab found the drug's target is also chief science officer of the company selling it, a conflict the breakthrough headlines tuck into a job title.
Autoimmune & InflammationSeven Biologics, Up to $47,000 a Year, and 89 Percent of Europe's Severe Asthmatics Still Aren't in Remission
The Lancet calls severe asthma an 'unmet need.' A 13,455-patient European registry shows most of those patients are already on the pricey biologics, and 89 percent still have active disease.
CancerTwenty People, No Control Arm, and a Startup on the Side: Reading the Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine's Fine Print
Ninety percent of twenty volunteers made KRAS-specific T cells. None was shown to avoid cancer. Two of the investigators co-founded the company that licensed the shot from Johns Hopkins, which stands to collect royalties.
Nutrition & FoodA PETA-Tied Doctors Group Is Suing to Kill RFK Jr.'s New Food Pyramid
The Physicians Committee says a secret, industry-tied panel redirected the 2025-2030 dietary guidelines. The group crying capture spent years inside PETA's funding orbit.
CancerUC Irvine's 'Framework' for Safer CAR-T Is a Hypothesis Essay, Not a Study
The senior author consults for Kite Pharma, whose Yescarta accounted for all 6 grade-5 neurotoxicity deaths in the cited review's real-world data, the exact harm the paper proposes to treat.
Infectious DiseaseEight Infant Macaques Showed No HIV Rebound for a Year. The Third Drug Comes From a Convicted-Fraud Biotech.
OHSU's triple regimen left no detectable virus in all eight infant macaques a year after treatment stopped, even after the harshest rebound test. Two of the authors hold a financial stake in the company behind the experimental third drug.
InvestigationsA JAMA Essay Says the Doctor Makes Your Care Worse. Three of Its Four Authors Sell the AI.
The Viewpoint predicts autonomous AI will run much of primary care by 2030, and that adding a human doctor can make the care worse. Its evidence is trained actors chatting over text, and three of its four authors sell or bankroll the AI.
Nutrition & FoodThe Study Telling You Not to Bother Cutting Sweet Foods Was Co-Funded by the Soda and Sweetener Industry
The Sweet Tooth Trial found no reason to reduce sweet-tasting foods. Its private funders include the soda industry's trade group and the International Sweeteners Association.
Nutrition & FoodSummer Sun Won't Save You: A Vitamin D Study Funded by the People Who Sell the Spray
A Newcastle screening study found vitamin D deficiency persists through summer in older and ethnic-minority adults in northern Britain. The funder sells the fix.
Nutrition & FoodYour Five-a-Day Isn't Enough Flavanols, Says the Company That Sells Them by the Capsule
A new study says following dietary guidelines won't get you enough flavanols for heart protection. Two of its authors work for the company that sells flavanols in a capsule.