Another Haunting Tale

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 08/21/2009 - 14:30

Halloween is more than two months away, but the ghost stories just keep on coming. The latest version was reported by the Associated Press (with a hat tip to Prof Margaret Soltan on the University Diaries blog ).

To quickly summarize,

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline used a sophisticated ghostwriting program to promote its antidepressant Paxil, allowing doctors to take credit for medical journal articles mainly written by company consultants , according to court documents obtained by The Associated...


 

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