Consultant Fees Go Undisclosed in Medical Journals, Study Finds - NYTimes.com: "“We found a massive, dramatic system failure,” said David J. Rothman, a professor and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University, who wrote the study with two other Columbia researchers, Susan Chimonas and Zachary Frosch.
The study, published on the Web site of The Archives of Internal Medicine, focused on 32 medical doctors and doctoral researchers who were each paid at least $1 million in 2007 and published one or more journal articles the next year.
Most of the doctors and most of the orthopedic journal articles did not disclose their financial relationships with companies, the study found.
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