PHA-Exchange> AFRICA/GLOBAL: HOW MEDICAL GIANTS HOODWINK JOURNALS

[George Lessard (s)]

AFRICA/GLOBAL: HOW MEDICAL GIANTS HOODWINK JOURNALS
http://news.hst.org.za/view.php3?id=20031211
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.
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