Did PLoS suffer from COI in ghostwriting article?
Remember that examination of Wyeth (now Pfizer)’s ghostwriting practices that ran in PLoS Medicine a few weeks back? Well, Pharmalot’s Ed Silverman reports that things got a fair bit weirder, thanks to...
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13 years of warnings, FDA inaction behind seizure
U.S. marshals seized a number of drug products from a small New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturer called Tri-Med laboratories earlier this month. It doesn’t sound like much, and there hasn’t really...
View ArticleBMJ exposes UK drugmaker’s astroturf attempt
Pharmalot blogger Ed Silverman reports that, had they not been exposed by BMJ, the UK pharmaceutical company Norgine probably would have gotten away with quietly organizing doctors and patient groups...
View ArticleFour states refuse to name hyper-prescribing docs
As part of his war against overprescription and fraud, Sen. Charles Grassley asked states to share data on doctors who write colossal amounts of prescriptions for drugs covered by Medicaid. At this...
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