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...

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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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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...
3/26/2008 NYT -- In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College jolted the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through widespread use of...