The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, has been asked to create regulations for how its grantee institutions handle financial conflicts of interest, in a report released on 10 January by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. The NIH said in a statement that it is considering the recommendation as it drafts rules, but gave no timetable; it has already proposed regulations addressing conflicts for individual researchers. A spokesperson declined further comment.