Profiting from Medical Tests at Taxpayer Expense

A pair of US government researchers are collecting royalties on an AIDS treatment they're testing on patients at taxpayer expense. The patients don't know about the money link. In fact, Washington won't let the two doctors tell their patients. But it's not an isolated incident. More than 900 current and former scientists at the National Institutes of Health collected $8.9 million the same way last year -- testing their drugs on patients, and having you foot the bill. This would appear to be a conflict of interest -- scientists using their position to test drugs on which they stand to make a profit. Not to mention how taxpayers are underwriting the whole arrangement. (CBS)