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Topic: Competing Interests: CDC, protecting the privat

KarlaL
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Is the CDC being compromised by private funding and by conflicts of interest from advisors?

KarlaL

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Competing Interests
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: protecting the private good?

Jeanne Lenzer, associate editor, The BMJ, USA

BMJ 2015; 350 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h2362 (Published 15 May 2015)
Cite this as: BMJ 2015;350:h2362

For the complete article, go to:
http://www.lymedisease.org/cdc-conflicts-of-interest-bmj/

or:
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2362

After revelations that the CDC is receiving some funding from industry, Jeanne Lenzer investigates how it might have affected the organisation’s decisions

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes the following disclaimer with its recommendations: “CDC, our planners, and our content experts wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products . . . CDC does not accept commercial support.”1

The CDC’s image as an independent watchdog over the public health has given it enormous prestige, and its recommendations are occasionally enforced by law.

Despite the agency’s disclaimer, the CDC does receive millions of dollars in industry gifts and funding, both directly and indirectly, and several recent CDC actions and recommendations have raised questions about the science it cites, the clinical guidelines it promotes, and the money it is taking.

Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, told The BMJ, “The CDC has enormous credibility among physicians, in no small part because the agency is generally thought to be free of industry bias. Financial dealings with biopharmaceutical companies threaten that reputation.” . . .

For the complete article, go to:
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2362

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Despicable.

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