ACC President Fred Bove's responsible rebuttal of the recent JAMA editorial on relationships with industry got a lot of play outside cardiology this week. The Policy and Medicine Web site, for example, cited Fred as “taking JAMA to task for calling for an end of all industry relationships with physicians and medical societies.”

Meanwhile, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is continuing his personal quest to let the sunshine in by asking eight medical journals to describe their policies on ghostwriting of articles about drugs and devices. We are glad that JACC is notably not among the following journals receiving Sen. Grassley’s concerned inquiry for information:

• American Journal of Medicine
• Annals of Internal Medicine
• Annual Review of Medicine
• Archives of Internal Medicine
• Nature Medicine
• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
• New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)

*** Sen. Grassley. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. ***

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