NIH Rejected a Study of Alcohol Advertising While Pursuing Industry Funding for Other Research – STAT News

Read article - Cites comments by Susanne Tanski, associate professor of pediatrics, in an article about how George Koob, director of the National Institutes of Health's Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, decided to pull back on research examining whether alcohol marketing is associated with underage drinking. Koob's agency was quietly wooing the alcoholic beverage industry to contribute tens of millions of dollars for a study on whether drinking "moderate" amounts of alcohol was good for the heart.