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Vioxx and Ghostwriting Explained: (Recipe for Disaster)

5/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) Blurring the line between best-selling novels and best-selling pharmaceutical drug ads, Merck Inc. disguised professional writers as Vioxx drug safety researchers. As if their drugs were not scary enough, Merck brought in “ghostwriters”...

Study "Disproving" Mercury-Autism Link Published in Journal with Financial Ties to Vaccine Manufacturers

1/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) While the mainstream press is widely reporting a new study "disproving" any link between autism and mercury-containing thimerosal in vaccines, no one has bothered to point out that the study was published in a medical journal stacked full...

Exxon breaks financial ties to anti-global warming groups

1/24/2007 - (NaturalNews) Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. has cut its funding to a number of anti-global warming groups, and is participating industry talks on the potential regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. According to Exxon spokesperson Mark Boudreaux, the...

FDA panel on stent safety includes six doctors with strong financial ties to stent manufacturers; FDA waives ethics rules

12/14/2006 - (NaturalNews) An FDA panel set to make decisions on the safety and regulation of possibly deadly heart stents will include six doctors with financial links to Johnson & Johnson and other manufacturers of heart devices. In allowing the physicians to...

Top Alzheimer's researcher charged with felony criminal conduct for secret financial ties to Pfizer

12/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) A top researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was charged Monday with criminal violation of federal conflict-of-interest laws by failing to disclose financial links with drug giant Pfizer, prosecutors said. Pearson "Trey"...

Financial ties between FDA, drug companies could get even stronger with new "pay to play" TV advertisement review service

11/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) Under a new deal, pharmaceutical companies will now begin paying fees to the FDA when it reviews television drug ads in return for the agency expediting the reviews, but a natural health author says the arrangement will only strengthen FDA/Big...

Psychiatric medical journal editor Nemeroff resigns after secret financial ties uncovered

8/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) The editor of the medical journal Neuropsychopharmacology, Charles B. Nemeroff, has resigned his position after drawing criticism for failing to disclose his financial ties to a medical company whose device he endorsed in his journal. Nemeroff...

JAMA refuses to exclude authors who hide financial ties to drug companies

8/8/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said today that it would not ban authors who fail to disclose financial ties to drug companies, because such an action might bring antitrust lawsuits. Catherine DeAngelis, editor-in-chief...

FDA to clarify rules for allowing conflicts of interest on decision boards

7/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) The FDA is expected to announce new guidelines today on its process for excluding some -- but not all -- experts with financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry from influential advisory boards. The agency's new rules would clarify...

Medical journal reveals that 70 percent of drug decision-making panel members have financial ties to industry

7/11/2006 - The journal Nature has published studies showing that 70 percent of the drug decision panels run in this country are rigged with decision-makers who have strong financial ties to the very drug companies whose products are affected by these decisions....

Corruption exposed: drug companies gave grants, consulting fees to panelists who issued new cholesterol guidelines that are driving demand for statins

7/15/2004 - The new cholesterol lowering guidelines are proving to be a windfall for statin drug manufacturers like Pfizer and Merck: most news articles and medical advice concerning the new guidelines recommend drugs -- and drugs only -- to reduce cholesterol level....

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