JOURNAL EDITOR QUITS OVER CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The editor of a medical journal has resigned after drawing sharp criticism for failing to disclose his financial ties to a medical-device manufacturer after publishing a paper that endorsed one of its products. The editor, Charles B. Nemeroff, chairman of Emory University's department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was also a co-author of the paper, which said the device was an effective treatment for depression. The medical society that publishes the journal, Neuropsychopharmacology, attributed his resignation, in part, to bad publicity over the paper.
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