For all those who attended the lunch lecture last month with Carl Elliot on the topic of pharmaceutical companies' involvement in medical decision making and clinical trials, there is an update on the story on the front page of the MNDaily today. 

http://www.mndaily.com/2011/02/08/u-rejects-profs%E2%80%99-call-trial-review

Unfortunately, the Board of Regents rejected Dr. Elliot's (and 7 other professors at the U) request for Dan Markingson's case to be re-reviewed. 


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Divya Sood
University of Minnesota Medical School, Year 2
President, American Medical Student Association