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Selling Drug Secrets
A special report by Luke Timmerman and David Heath · August 7, 2005

Drug researchers
leak secrets to Wall St.


Despite confidentiality contracts, doctors are divulging details of their ongoing drug research — for a fee — to elite investors.

Experts say the practice breaks insider-trading laws, violates medical ethics and jeopardizes vital research. And government regulators seem to know nothing about it.  Read story

Updates: The SEC investigation and other follow-up stories

The practice is a moral cesspool.

Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

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