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A letter to the editor is presented in response to a commentary by F. Godlee about financial conflicts of interest in the June 11, 2015 issue.

The article reports on a list of approximately 100 independent medical experts that was compiled by reporters Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee so that reporters in Great Britain could have a place to turn to when they needed accurate medical information for their stories. The list was compiled by the two in an effort to disentangle commercial messages from science and to help prevent the publication of medical stories that contain inaccurate medical information and could promote misconceptions about diseases and medicine in society.

The article reports that the National Physicians Alliance has protested against a change to rules on conflicts of interest at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2011.

Reports that a year long struggle over funding of the Cochrane Collaboration has been settled. What the collaboration is and its purpose which is to review health interventions and disseminate the information world wide; Decision of the collaboration to limit industry funding which has some claiming it will hurt research; Other changes to the original collaboration papers; Appointment of a funding arbiter who will oversee management of the difficult cases; Problems with the Cochrane work.