Associated Press ran an article entitled, "Study Examines Schools' Ties to Drug Companies" about a new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which surveyed medical schools' ties to drug companies. The study, by lead author Eric Campbell, researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, found that 60% of department heads reported some type of personal financial relationship with industry and 27% said they had recently served as a paid consultant, while the same percentage reported that they had served on a company scientific advisory board. Dr. Jerome Kassirer, a former New England Journal of Medicine editor and frequent critic of industry influence over doctors, called the study eye-opening. "I was appalled by the results," said Dr. Kassirer, "No one knew that so many chairs of medicine and psychiatry were paid speakers. We've never had that data before.

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