The disclosure of hidden tobacco money behind a study suggesting that lung scans might help save smokers from cancer has shocked the research community and raised fresh concern about industry influence in science.
Two medical journals that...
The parent company of a cigarette maker paid for a U.S. study that said increased use of CT scans can prevent lung cancer...
When cancer doctors read about the latest research findings in their journals they expect two things that the studies are scientifically sound, and that the results are not biased by any personal or institutional interests. But in a stunning...
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Dr. Jerome Kassirer, a former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine and the author of a book about conflicts of interest, said he believed that Weill Cornell had created the foundation to hide its receipt of money from a cigarette...
The New York Times reports
this morning that the tobacco giant Liggett & Myers contributed
$3.6 million to a controversial screening study that suggested using
routine CT scans to detect lung cancer early could substantially reduce
lung cancer...
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