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APS Science Policy Update
December 20, 2006
In this issue:
- FASEB’s conflict of interest guidelines
- Nature editorial on NIH in the New Year
- Resolution in Georgia textbook sticker case
FASEB Conflict of Interest Guidelines
The FASEB Journal’s December issue features an
article entitled “Conflicts of interest in biomedical research – the
FASEB guidelines.” The guidelines were developed following a conference
in 2005 that explored conflict of interest and how relationships between
academic researchers and industry can be maximized to promote
translational research while reducing the risks posed by conflict of
interest.
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/full/20/14/2435
NIH past and future
A recent editorial in Nature provides an overview
of problems that have recently plagued the NIH, as well as how the
recently passed reauthorization measure may help to give the agency a
clean start in the New Year.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7121/full/444789a.html
Resolution in Georgia textbook sticker case
A prolonged legal battle in Cobb County, GA is over
after the school board agreed to remove stickers from biology textbooks
that warn students that evolution is a theory and not a fact. The APS
and several other scientific organizations signed on to an amicus brief
submitted in this case that endorsed the teaching of evolution.
http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-na-evolution20dec20,1,1277638.story?coll=la-news-learning