US proposes tighter conflict-of-interest rules for federally funded research
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
The US Department of Health and Human Services has proposed new conflict-of-interest rules for federally funded medical research that would reduce the threshold level for reporting a financial interest from $10,000 to $5,000. The measure also would require grantee institutions to publish on the web information about investigators’ significant financial interests in pharmaceutical companies and other entities when they are deemed to be conflicts of interest1.