Medicine: Stanford behind again, gets coastal bonus points for banning freebies

I'm not sure why Stanford and UofM seem so intimately linked in so many ways. Both are perennial low top-10s that steeplechase each other based on who can lobby U.S. News the hardest to change the formula to benefit them. Our deans have been seemingly buddy-buddy on a variety of issues. They're both in uber-rich snotty liberal college towns. And now, just now, they both have a ban on freebies from drug companies.

The difference? Stanford's is new. WTF? How does Stanford get a headline for doing something that many other sensical academic medical centers figured out a long time ago? Yale and UPenn are mentioned just over the past few years as well. How about some love for the Marxists in Ann Arbor?!?!