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...Arthur Wilmarth, finance professor at George Washington University Law School. Banks, forced to keep more debt on their books, are less willing to lend to anyone who doesn't have a high FICA, or credit quality, score. The result is a vicious cycle of borrowers being hit with higher interest rates, hair-trigger late fees and curtailed credit lines just when they need funds the most. Higher food and gas prices have contributed to that burden...
...early September, the first-year Harvard Medical School students in a biochemistry class expected to learn about protein degradation. Instead, they came out of lecture ready to push for more comprehensive conflict of interest policies...
...Intrigued by his presentation, several students later looked up some of his peer-reviewed articles and found that Richardson was on Millennium’s advisory board—a potential conflict of interest that was not disclosed during the session with Richardson and his patient...
...Though Richardson did not violate any ethics policy, the students had touched on an important issue—up until then, the Medical School did not have a codified conflict of interest policy for the classroom. As several Medical School professors have recently come under fire for failure to disclose conflicts of interest, first-year students banded together to push for stronger disclosure policies at the school...
...It’s important for students to have access to unbiased information based on scientific evidence,” said David C. Tian, a first-year medical student who soon joined his peers in their quest to tighten the school’s conflict of interest policies...