The rules cover physicians and researchers at Boston-based Partners HealthCare, a non-profit group that runs the teaching centers. The guidelines stop doctors at the Boston hospitals from getting free lunches or drug samples individually. They also end participation in company-sponsored speakers bureaus, said James Mongan, the groups president, in a statement.
Massachusetts General is investigating a research center run by Joseph Biederman, a Harvard child psychiatrist who has been criticized by Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley for taking funding from Johnson & Johnson, maker of the antipsychotic - - - - >

Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, asked Pfizer in a letter to disclose the amount, dates and reasons for payments including honoraria and research support to Harvard medical faculty members dating to Jan. 1, 2007. Grassley also requested e-mails, faxes, letters and photos from the drugmaker regarding Harvard students after the New York Times reported that a Pfizer employee used his cell phone in October to photograph students protesting industry influence.
Grassley, the ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee, has probed whether doctors and research - - - - >

Mice that were injected with the treatment three days after being infected with bird flu didnt show any symptoms, according to an Online report in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. The treatment also protected mice from other strains of flu virus, researchers said.
Normally, flu vaccines are specific to only one strain of virus at a time. The new results suggest a single treatment may be developed that works for many strains. Such a treatment could be used to help slow outbreaks while more precise - - - - >