ACC President Doug Weaver was featured in this month's Cardiovascular Business Magazine as an "ACC Corner" columnist discussing relationships with industry. Dr. Weaver writes:

We depend on industry support to help carry out our mission. Without such funding, our efforts to provide meaningful unbiased education and to improve quality would be crippled. Rather than restricting industry funding for such activities, we should instead focus on actively managing relationships with industry and the potential for conflicts of interest in our relationships.

He concludes: "Our job is to make sure that any relationship is managed in a way that ensures unbiased, evidence-based, patient-centered and balanced reviews of science, regardless of funding sources."

What do you think? Is managing -- rather than restricting -- relationships the best way?

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