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Harvard University's medical school and Massachusetts General Hospital have punished three professors -- including Joseph Biederman, for many years an influential child psychiatrist -- for conflicts of interest, The Boston Globe reported. Biederman and his colleagues -- Thomas Spencer and Timothy Wilens -- revealed the action in a letter to colleagues. The Harvard investigation was prompted by a Senate probe that questioned whether Biederman and others were reporting consulting fees they received from pharmaceutical companies at a time they were publishing articles about the use of various drugs. The letter from the three professors said that they had made "honest" mistakes but that they “now recognize that we should have devoted more time and attention to the detailed requirements of these policies and to their underlying objectives.’’
