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I admit to steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem being jaded with the way pharmaceutical medicine is practiced, and I tend to steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem live by the aphorism, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean someone isn’t after you.” So when steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem news items like these come to light, it just reaffirms my world view. *sigh*.

First on the Why-Am-I-Not-Surprised list is this report in the New York Times  that well over 15% of the steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School have financial ties to insurance companies. To wit:

“…no one disputes that steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem many individual Harvard Medical faculty members receive tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem year through industry consulting and speaking fees. Under the school’s disclosure rules, about 1,600 of 8,900 professors and steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem lecturers have reported to the dean that they or a family member had steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem a financial interest in a business related to their teaching, research or steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem clinical care. The reports show 149 with financial ties to Pfizer and steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem 130 with Merck.”

This doesn’t even include the steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem range of other questionable ethical arrangements from non-cash gifts to steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem faculty and students all the way to the $50,000 faculty prize awarded by Bristol-Myers Squibb and the $1 million scholarships given by Pfizer to steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem medical students. Yes, that Pfizer, makers of the number one statin drug Lipitor, one of the steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem drugs that is being heavily marketed for groups of people for steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem which there is little evidence that it is helpful. (Read more from Dr.Rothfeld on cholesterol and statin drugs  create tooltip by install shield)

Now that steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem these cozy arrangements have been brought to light, there is some movement to steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem limit these relationships. Sen. Charles Grassley has called for a full disclosure of drug company payments to steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem Harvard Med faculty members. And, the dean of the Medical School Dr. Jeffrey Flier (himself a former recipient of a $500,000 research grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb) has steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem formed a committee to examine conflict-of-interest. But one can still wonder how objectivity can steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem be maintained in the face of such influence.

So if we can’t trust objectivity in our teaching institutions, how about the “peer-reviewed” journals that our medical wisdom depends upon? It turns out that it is a practice for drug companies to hire “ghost writers” to author articles favorable to their drugs. Another New York Times article chronicles the chilling information regarding documents that are before Congress:

The documents show company executives came up with ideas for steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem medical journal articles, titled them, drafted outlines, paid writers to steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem draft the manuscripts, recruited academic authors and identified publications to steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem run the articles - all without disclosing the companies’ roles to journal editors or readers.

Such shenanigans included the steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem pharmaceutical giant Wyeth producing articles supporting the use of drugs such as the steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem hormone combination PremPro, which had already been shown to be dangerous and steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem ineffective. And it’s not just Wyeth (which has steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem just been purchased by Pfizer to make an even scarier giant). Merck (who just bought Schering-Plough) was caught similarly promoting it’s drug Vioxx, which is now off the market due to it’s risk.

Incidentally, this information also was discovered as part of Sen. Grassley’s investigation of drug companies. He’s definitely got his hands full, untangling the steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem breeches of trust between big drug companies, the doctors who (mistakenly or otherwise) prescribe their medications without truthful supportive information, and steinberg cubase 6 cheap oem the public who never seem to leave their doctor’s office without a fistful of prescriptions.

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One Response to “Drug Companies - Foxes in the Henhouse”

  1. Thanks for that information.

    Is there an y petition circulating?

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