"Some argue that given the crucial role industry plays in funding clinical trials and other research, it’s inevitable that the top researchers in a given field (the very people you might want writing guidelines) will have financial ties to companies." Dear ECTRIMS, we have your financial disclosures available to us online. We can see your conflict of interest, in black and white. Independent research for CCSVI....now.


Guideline Experts Have Conflicts of Interest, Study Finds
blogs.wsj.com
More than half of the panelists developing guidelines for dealing with high cholesterol or diabetes had conflicts of interest.