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...Louis Weinstein, a Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor who devoted his lifetime to the modern medical field of infectious diseases, died last Thursday at a nursing home in Newton, Massachusetts...
Peter M. Howley, chair of the HMS department of pathology, says HMS lab research is often supported by large corporations such as Smith-Kline Beecham or Glaxo Wellcome. Professors are often testing new treatments in which such firms have a vested interest...
Because of this distinction between the types of corporate funding received by FAS and HMS researchers, medical school professors say they support the current policy as stands...
Having spent 21 years at NIH, whose conflict-of-interest policy he describes as "far more severe" than that of HMS, Sachs says the medical school's policy is appropriate...
...Even at HMS, Howley says, as long as professors are open with the students they teach about their outside financial interests, it is unlikely that a conflict-of-interest would arise in the classroom...