期刊名称:Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics
印刷版ISSN:1535-3532
出版年度:2013
卷号:13
期号:1
页码:3
出版社:Yale Law School
摘要:The most contentious, unresolved issue in biomedicine in the last twentyfive years has been how to best address compensated partnerships between academic researchers and the pharmaceutical industry. Law and policy deliberately promote these partnerships through intellectual property law, research funding programs, and drug and device approval pathways while simultaneously condemning them through conflict-of-interest (COI) regulations. These regulations have not been subjected to the close scrutiny that is typically utilized in administrative law to evaluate and improve regulatory systems. This Article suggests that the solution to this standoff in biomedical law and policy lies in an informed, empirical approach. Such an approach must both recognize such partnerships' legal and practical variations, as well as classify them based on their benefit to innovation and their harm to research biases.