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CORRECTION: A sub-headline accompanying the Nov. 7 news article, which was published in print as "HMS Doctors Linked to Scandal" and retitled online "Medical Device Companies Report Payments to HMS Doctors," incorrectly stated that medical device makers implicated in a federal investigation had been accused of illegally paying millions to Harvard doctors. In fact, the accusations did not specifically reference Harvard physicians, although the companies have listed financial ties to Harvard doctors among legally required disclosures...
CLARIFICATION: The second paragraph of the Nov. 7 news article "Medical Device Companies Report Payments to HMS Doctors" stated that Thornhill and Scott received $6.7 million each since the beginning of 2007 from DePuy Orthopedics. They received this money as royalty fees for their hip and knee replacement products...
...After dark, he sometimes drives a few miles into the center of Hartlepool for dinner, where a marina built by the council is bolstered by two new call centers and a tourist attraction. The pride of the town is now HMS Trincomalee, a restored 1817 warship, just like the ones Hartlepool was once famous for building, another ghost ship in a town haunted by them...
...substantial majority of department chairs at U.S. medical schools and training hospitals have ties to the medical research industry, according to a survey conducted by doctors at Harvard Medical School (HMS) to determine the extent of those relationships. Sixty percent of department chairs who responded to the survey, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, had some form of personal relationship with private companies, ranging from collecting research funding and paid consulting to receiving free food and beverages. The findings raised concerns about research bias at academic medical centers. “These ties do impact...
...years. But medical schools at Harvard and other Ivy League universities are keeping their class sizes steady, saying that any changes they make would be insufficient in addressing the problem. Harvard’s class size has not grown for over 25 years, according to former Harvard Medical School (HMS) Dean Joseph B. Martin’s 2005 Commencement address. Jules L. Dienstag, the dean for medical education at HMS, said that the school will keep its class size at 165 and does not have the capacity to expand. “The mission of HMS is to train leaders...