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| Senator Grassley Takes Aim At CDC Over Financial Conflicts Of Interest | |
 Apr 23, 2010 Grassley takes aim at CDC over financial conflicts * Letter asks how CDC polices scientific advisers * Seeks response to report faulting agency on ethics CHICAGO, April 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. senator has asked the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to spell out how the agency is policing conflicts of interest among scientists who advise it on public health issues. In a letter to CDC chief Dr. Thomas Frieden dated April 22, Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, asked what steps the CDC has taken to address concerns raised in a report about scientists serving on federal advisory committees. The report, issued by the inspector general office of the Department of Health and Human Services in December 2009, found the CDC had problems getting complete financial disclosure forms and that many scientists were serving on federal advisory committees despite having undisclosed conflicts of interest. Grassley has been pushing to limit the influence drugmakers have over the practice of medicine in the United States, after investigations revealed that prominent Harvard University psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Biederman and others failed to fully disclose payments from drug companies. In the letter released on Friday, Grassley asked Frieden to provide an update by May 6 on what the CDC is doing to ensure that scientific advisors are fully disclosing financial conflicts of interest. He also wanted to know what measures the CDC has in place when advisers do not fully comply with the disclosure requests, as well as what steps have been taken to ensure scientific advisers have taken ethics training. Grassley has also asked for the names of all scientists who serve on the CDC's 17 Federal Advisory Committees. (Editing by Vicki Allen) |
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