Conflict of interest in medical publishing exists when a participant’s private interests compete with his or her responsibilities to the scientific community, readers and society. While conflict of interest is common, it reaches the level of concern when ‘a reasonable observer might wonder if the individual’s behavior or judgment was motivated by his or her competing interests’.[1] Having a com...

The first two objects of the association are: (1) 'To promote closer ties among the National Medical Organizations and among the doctors of the world by personal contact and all other means available. (2) To maintain the honour and protect the interests of the medical profession.' The W.M.A. represents some 700,000 medical men from some 43 national organizations (Editorial 1952). It is not a go...

Conflict of interest in medical publishing exists when a participant’s private interests compete with his or her responsibilities to the scientific community, readers, and society. While conflict of interest is common, it reaches the level of concern when “a reasonable observer might wonder if the individual’s behavior or judgment was motivated by his or her competing interests”1. Having a comp...

The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement of 1996, updated in 2001, 2 gives recommendations for reporting randomised controlled trials and has been endorsed by the World Association of Medical Editors, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and the Council of Science Editors. Studies indicate that it has helped to improve the quality of reportin...