Revealed: How Drug Firms 'Hoodwink' Medical Journals
Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles - then
put doctors' names on them.
Hundreds of articles in medical journals claiming to be written by
academics or doctors have been penned by ghostwriters in the pay of drug
companies, an Observer inquiry reveals. The journals, bibles of the
profession, have huge influence on which drugs doctors prescribe and the
treatment hospitals provide.
But The Observer has uncovered evidence that many articles written by
so-called independent academics may have been penned by writers working
for agencies which receive huge sums from drug companies to plug their
products.
For more on this important article, see the following website:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1101680,00.html
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