*** Medical journal gets independence
BOSTON (AP) - The governing body of the Massachusetts Medical Society
voted Saturday to give the editors of the New England Journal of
Medicine final say over what commercial publications go out with a
printed endorsement. The vote comes on the heels of criticism that
the medical society planned to profit by using the journal's name and
reputation to sell a line of second-tier medical publications. The
controversy over the labeling issue was behind this summer's ousting
of journal editor Jerome P. Kassirer, an outspoken critic of the
society's plans over the use of the journal name. A majority of the
society's 535-member House of Delegates approved a resolution stating
hat the journal's editor in chief has complete editorial
independence from its publisher, the Massachusetts Medical Society.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561958460-287
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Robert Marshall, MD
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