JAMA says docs misled over industry ties

[deminks]

CHICAGO - Just days after announcing a crackdown on researchers who do not disclose drug company ties, the editor of a prestigious medical journal says she was misled again — this time by the authors of a study linking severe migraines to heart attacks in women.

All six of the study's authors have done consulting work or received research funding from makers of treatments for migraines or heart-related problems. Their research appears in Wednesday's
Journal of the American Medical Association, a week after the crackdown was announced.

The authors said they did not report their financial ties because they did not believe they were relevant to the study.

Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, JAMA's editor in chief, said journal editors did not know about the ties until The Associated Press brought them to her attention late last week.

"We'll get killed," she said, referring to the potential damage to the journal's reputation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060718/ap_on_he_me/journal_s_conflicts

[Ian David]

1. I just saw that on the news today and said, "I smell a Video News Release!

[Tellurian]

2. DeAngelis should be concerned. She isn't doing her homework

and due diligence. Getting too comfortable in a work environment
is always the precursor of negligence and fraud.

She needs to ramp up her research team. How difficult is that?
JAMA has always been the "gospel" for physicians and the most
reliable source of medical research.

[tanyev]

3. Yeah. Doesn't she know how to Goooogle?