Harvard Medical Students stand up against the drug companies
Apr 20 2009 06:13
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/business/03medschool.html?_r=2&emc=eta1
"Mr. Zerden’s minor stir four years ago has lately grown into a full-blown movement by more than 200 Harvard Medical School students and sympathetic faculty, intent on exposing and curtailing the industry influence in their classrooms and laboratories, as well as in Harvard’s 17 affiliated teaching hospitals and institutes.
They say they are concerned that the same money that helped build the school’s world-class status may in fact be hurting its reputation and affecting its teaching."
The story doesn't say whether they plan to take any action against drug-company interference in their courses, but it does say they secured an agreement that all lectureres/professors must declare their relationships to drug companies up-front.