Topics

Pulling the curtain back on long-hidden industry relationships, the federal government revealed that U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals had $3.5 billion worth of financial ties with drug and medical-device makers in the last five months of 2013. The details published Tuesday in a new government database have been sought for years by consumer advocates and lawmakers concerned that conflicts of interest in the medical profession are jeopardizing patient care and costing taxpayer-funded health programs. ------------ FOR THE RECORD: Doctor payments: An Oct. 1 article in the Business section on payments made to doctors and hospitals by drug and medical device firms misstated some data from the...