Wyeth's Industrial Scale Ghost-Writing

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Wed, 08/05/2009 - 12:40

MedInformaticsMD noted the impending release of documents about how Wyeth engineered ghost-writing of articles about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) here.

Now the NY Times has had a chance to review the documents, with fascinating results.

The scope of the ghost-writing campaign was on an impressively industrial scale: 26 articles published over 7 years in 18 medical journals.

The details were ably covered by at least three other blogs. Dr Adriane Fugh-Berman, guest- (not ghost-) blogging on PharmaGossip...

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