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Congressman Chaka Fattah, Democrat of Pennsylvania, is touting the National Football League’s $30 million gift to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. He says it’s a model of corporate and government partnership on public health.<\/p>\n

I, too, want to talk about why I think this is a model — a horrible one.<\/p>\n

Toward that end, I cite the poisoned history of NIH’s research grants, over at least a six-year period starting in the early 2000s, to a team at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which turned around and used the money to help start a for-profit company called ImPACT Applications, Inc. Thanks to a marketing blitz (which would be laughable if the subject weren’t so serious and the stakes — the long-term mental health of a significant percentage of American males — weren’t so high), ImPACT’s “concussion management” software is widely considered some kind of solution to traumatic brain injury in football, even though a growing number of observers have come to realize it’s nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n

So today I posed these questions to Congressman Fattah, but he hasn’t responded as yet:<\/p>\n

1. Do you agree with UPMC’s refusal to make public the commercial conflict-of-interest disclosures relative to its applications for this grant money?<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. If your answer is no, will you seek to make these documents public?<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. What is your rejoinder to the argument that the NIH-UPMC-ImPACT model reinforces misgivings about the new NFL-NIH relationship, of which you speak so highly?<\/strong><\/p>\n

FURTHER READING:\n<\/p>\n

Exclusive at Concussion Inc.: Documenting the Federal Government’s Multimillion-Dollar Support of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Concussion Research<\/a><\/h2>\n
Published November 30th, 2011<\/div>\n
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Irv Muchnick<\/em><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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