© 2004 by Oxford University Press
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Panels Recommendations Urge Sufficient Public Transparency in Outside Activities
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In simpler times, one set of rules might well have sufficed for everyone working in a professional capacity at the National Institutes of Health. But a blue ribbon panel appointed by NIH director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., to help him deal with the agencys alleged conflict of interest problems has taken a more measured approach. On May 6, when the panel reported to Zerhouni and his advisory council at NIHs Bethesda, Md., campus, it was to urge NIH to adopt policies that would steer a careful path between its research mission for the benefit of the public and the needs and aspirations of its scientists.
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"Government ethics rules (applicable to NIH) are complex and