Friday, April 18, 2008

Tanning for dollars - researcher conflict of interest (from Schwitzer health news blog)

The Wall Street Journal reports: A Boston University researcher who authored an article in the New England Journal of Medicine last year recommending the moderate use of tanning beds as a way to treat or avoid vitamin-D deficiency has received research funding from an organization funded and controlled by the tanning-bed industry. The link to researcher Michael Holick's work and the tanning industry wasn't made clear in the article. A note at the end of the article disclosed that Dr. ...
Source: blog.lib.umn.edu

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