"Too-cozy ties between doctors and drugmakers must end," says LA Times

03/09/2009

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times today says outsiders “keep the pressure on” the pharmaceutical industry, and that Congress must make full disclosure of pharmaceutical money in academia mandatory, following a series of reports about Harvard Medical School last week that indicate the industry is still deeply entrenched in medical education.

“The industry must be brought under control. But how? Its lobbyists are among the most powerful in Washington. Its revenues, though battered, remain enormous. Its voluntary measures have been largely symbolic or merely attempts to forestall tougher requirements imposed from outside.”

For more, read the editorial here.