PALO ALTO (KCBS) -- Beginning this week, Stanford University's medical school will no longer accept money from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to fund specific programs in continuing education.
It's in response to what's become a billion-dollar relationship between medical schools and businesses.
John Simpson, with Consumer Watchdog in Southern California, said the companies were not offering the money out of the kindness of their hearts. "It's all about marketing and pushing the drugs that they're trying to sell."
According to Simpson, companies fund courses all over the country but in return for the money, schools are required to mention their products and use their experts in the programs.
Stanford is one of only six schools nationwide to put a halt to the arrangement.
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KCBS' Rebecca Corral reports
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