A number of medical schools are letting drug companies who are involved with sponsoring studies have control over the results of that research, but schools are not letting them edit at the research articles or "suppress negative results."

Half of the schools said they would let pharmaceutical companies and makers of medical devices draft articles that appear in medical journals, and a quarter would allow them to supply the actual results. But academics draw the line at gag orders that keep researchers from publishing negative findings.

The ABC News article asserts that two-thirds of funding for biomedical research at colleges comes from private funding. If this is correct it is a bit worrisome, as it almost screams out as a conflict of interest situation. This is an unfortunate consequence of a regrettable decline in public funding for biomedical research.