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PaulKing - 12 May 2005 02:04 GMT

The link between industry, authors and their results
By Jeremy Laurance
23 April 2004

Cancer drugs: Just 5 per cent of studies funded by the pharmaceutical
industry reached unfavourable conclusions about the companies' drugs
compared with 38 per cent paid for by non-profit organisations. ( Journal
of the American Medical Association , 1999)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=514316

Drug firms profit from 'murky' link with journals, study shows Companies
are misleading doctors, patients and governments to push their medicines,
says a special edition of the 'BMJ' By Maxine Frith, Social Affairs
Correspondent
30 May 2003

The "murky" relationships between the world's leading pharmaceutical
companies, supposedly independent medical journals and family doctors are
exposed in the British Medical Journal today.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=410738

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GMCarter - 12 May 2005 10:55 GMT

>The link between industry, authors and their results

Essentially, I agree with this. The nefarious impact of the pharma
industry on clinical trials, results and publishing, as well as
horrific spin, actually in the end does them little good.

The COMPANIES need to be regulated MUCH more strongly. They're out of
control. That will never happen under Bush, who suffers from BTS when
it comes to Pharma. (Brown Tongue Syndrome)

This is a point of discussion that is VERY important.

It does NOT mean that the products produced are therefore all bad, of
course.

George M. Carter

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