Good News from the European Medicines Agency

Jim Murray | Open Medicine EU | April 10, 2011

The recent conference in Cork on conflict of interest was extremely interesting and will provide the basis for a few posts on this blog – the speakers’ presentation can be seen here.

In a well received intervention, Noel Wathion of the European Medicines Agency announced that the agency would now publish an electronic declaration of conflict of interest for all its scientific committee members and other experts involved in EMA work. The database was launched on 30th September and can be seen here. (Many experts have yet to submit their declarations but that should be only a matter of time.)...