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Ed Silverman over at Pharmalot writes about the conflicts of interest involving the pharmaceutical industry, the Irish Medicines Board, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the European Medicines Agency.
Findings, published in Social Science & Medicine, suggests there is reason for concern.
They found that the MHRA executive board since 2004 had five people who had industry backgrounds before joining the agency, one went on to an industry job after leaving and one participated in research funded by a drugmaker before joining the MHRA. In total, seven of 25, or 28 percent of MHRA personnel had a relationship with drugmakers.
“We found that of the 26 chairs of various Working Groups, Panels and Expert Advisory Groups 15 had personal interests, 12 had non-personal interests, 6 had both personal and non-personal interests and 10 had neither type of interest,” wrote the researchers. “Our review of the publicly available declarations of interests of the EMEA Management Board found that 25 percent of members declared interests in the pharmaceutical industry…
Read Ed's article HERE
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