NIH "bright-line" bans outside employment.(Conflicts of Interest)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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Under sweeping new ethics rules unveiled Feb. 1 by National Institutes of Health Director Elias Zerhouni, MD, all NIH employees will be barred from consulting and other forms of employment, whether paid or unpaid, with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies.

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