by Doug Payne
NEWS ANALYSIS	Canadian research compromised? Email: Doug Payne - dougpayne@islandtelecom.com News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20041124-02 Published   24 November 2004

A panel of medical experts commissioned by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has warned that the integrity and independence of the work done by up to 20,000 clinical faculty and researchers in Canada is at risk, because of outside pressures against which they have few protections. The report, Defending Medicine: Clinical Faculty and Academic Freedom, was released last week and makes a number of key recommendations to better protect the researchers, many of whom are also physicians.

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