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Widespread Ghostwriting of Drug Trials Means "Scientific" Credibility of Pharmaceutical Industry is a Sham

4/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) The discovery that drug companies have been ghostwriting scientific studies using in-house writers, then paying (bribing) doctors and high-level academics to pretend they were the author of the article is making shockwaves across conventional...

How Drug Companies Covertly Influence the Content of Medical Literature

4/16/2008 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies regularly carry out every aspect of a study on their products, then solicit academics to put their names on the final papers in order to disguise their involvement, according to an essay published in the journal...

Negative results of drug trials routinely suppressed

12/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) Researchers rarely publish negative research results in mainstream medical journals, and even purposely suppress results that fail to prove links between diseases and drugs or genes, according to the Wall Street Journal's Sharon Begley. To...

Arthritis drug researchers apologize for undisclosed pharmaceutical industry ties

11/8/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an apology letter in today's issue from a team of researchers who failed to disclose pharmaceutical industry ties in an arthritis drug study published last May. The study,...

Medical journals begin cracking down on fraudulent studies funded by drug companies

10/18/2006 - (NaturalNews) Medical journals across the United States have begun initiating stricter ethics codes for publishing research funded by pharmaceutical or medical device-makers, including many journals that have instituted zero-tolerance policies for study...

Review of scientific journals shows steadily increasing conflict of interest in funding of drug trials

8/15/2006 - When scientific research appears in a peer-reviewed journal, readers are supposed to be able to trust that the research is honest, unbiased and accurate -- especially when it concerns prescription drug safety. Thus, when journalists at mainstream news...

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...

JAMA caught red handed failing to disclose conflicts of interest, just one week after new "crackdown" announced

7/21/2006 - (NaturalNews) Last week, Journal of the American Medical Association Editor in Chief Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, announced she would be cracking down on researchers who did not disclose conflicts of interest with drug companies, but just one week later,...

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....

Medical Journals Should Ban Drug Advertisements, Say Researchers (press release)

7/1/2006 - “By accepting only advertisements for drugs and medical devices, medical journals have accepted an exclusive and dependent relationship with pharmaceutical companies,” said a team of Georgetown researchers in a paper to be published in the Public Library...

The truth about medical journals, and how drug companies exert heavy influence over published scientific articles

10/3/2005 - Can the medical journals be trusted to provide accurate, unbiased information about medicine even as they are almost entirely funded by drug companies? In her book, Vaccination, Peggy O'Mara writes that the current era of medical beliefs (or dogma) began...

The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous drugs

7/31/2005 - A cute, animated ball bounces around very sadly until he takes a magic potion; suddenly, it becomes happier than ever. No, that isn't the plot of a new children's movie. On the contrary, it's the storyline of a Zoloft commercial – yes, Zoloft, a powerful...

What the American Medical Association hopes you never learn about its true history

6/23/2005 - To most Americans, the concept of "nonprofit" goes hand-in-hand with trust. If a person or an agency isn't driven by money, they seem more likely to be trustworthy and unbiased. They should have the public's best interests at heart, right? The American...

Merck caught in scandal to bury Vioxx heart attack risks, intimidate scientists and keep pushing dangerous drugs; Vioxx lawsuits now forming

11/6/2004 - The truth has finally come out about Vioxx: insider emails published by the Wall Street Journal reveal that Merck, the maker of Vioxx, was fully aware of the health risks of its COX-2 inhibitor anti-inflammatory drug as early as March, 2000. As is apparent...

Scientific medical journals like JAMA fail basic credibility standards; medical journals become increasingly irrelevant

8/19/2004 - The Journal of the American Medical Association -- JAMA -- and other scientific medical journals have been caught red-handed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest for failing to disclose the financial relationships between study authors and...

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