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Essay: Drug companies found to influence writing in medical journals
Drug companies may have a more influential role in how professors publish articles in medical journals, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

In an essay published in PLoS Medicine, Sergio Sismondo, an associate professor at Queen’s University in Canada, said that pharmaceutical corporations hire media companies to write favorable articles for their products. After these articles are written, academic scientists are recruited to claim authorship. These ghost-sponsored essays hurt medical research, said Sismondo, and prevention methods, like professors demonstrating what part they had in writing and preparing medical articles, should be implemented.

Rutgers offers free tuition to low-income students in New Jersey
Rutgers University announced that it has implemented a new program that will allow minority and low-income students in New Jersey to enroll at one of its campuses for free, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

The Rutgers Future Scholars Program, will select high-achieving eighth graders every year to attend the institution without having to pay tuition and other fees. In addition, students who are chosen will receive advice for planning their college education and about how to take tests.
—Katie Dunn

 
 
 


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