by Ted Agres
NEWS ANALYSIS	NIH ethics report draws critics Email: Ted Agres - tedagres@lycos.com News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040812-02 Published   12 August 2004

The US Office of Government Ethics (OGE) wants the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enact far more restrictive conflict-of-interest regulations on outside consulting activities than those proposed by NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni and a special "blue ribbon" panel of experts. But a leading biomedical and life sciences organization calls OGE's recommendations "disturbing" and "punitive."

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