Category: Health Care Industry - Part 19

By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon The University of Colorado’s medical school failed to police potentially unethical financial relationships between its doctors and drug companies, allowing faculty members to scoop up hundreds of thousands of dollars to give thinly-veiled marketing talks, often using the pharmaceutical companies’ own promotional materials. An internal review at CU found 46 full-time medical school faculty members had received money either to give drug talks or to consult for pharmaceutical companies. The university may force several of the faculty members to pay back cash they received or reveal tax information in the future to ensure they are not…