Conflicts of interest among US NIH employees may go unresolved
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The many institutes within the US National Institutes of Healthmust handle allegations concerning conflict of interests and ethics violations for about 18,000 employees, and an investigative agency found that one third of allegations received between January 2006 and June 2007 did not have documented resolutions – which left up in the air whether and how the allegations were resolved.