Charges of ethical misbehavior stagger U.S. health agency

The jewel of U.S. medical research is starting to lose some of its glitter.

Long known for impeccable science, the federally funded National Institutes of Health is in tumult over disclosures that hundreds of the government agency's scientists have worked as consultants for drug and biotechnology companies or accepted cash prizes from universities that depend on the NIH to fund research.

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