Big Pharma pushing the pens on medical literatureNewly revealed court papers show that pharmaceutical companies paid ghostwriters to contribute to 26 papers published in medical journals supporting hormone replacement therapy, which was subsequently found to increase the risk of heart disease, cancer and dementia.
Medical journalism
HuffPo’s unhealthy quackery
Pay peanuts… It’s one thing for The Huffington Post’s army of unpaid bloggers to pontificate on politics, but when it comes to science and medicine, it’s just irresponsible to publish the crackpot theories of unqualified, self-appointed “experts” says doctor Rahul K. Parikh.
Media failing to report medical conflicts of interest
Too many medical stories look more like promotion than journalism- and have been driven by the powerful marketing machinery of one of the most profitable industries on the planet, writes Roy Moynihan.
The ties that bind: how big pharma buys a good press
While efforts are underway in Australia and elsewhere to disentangle the ties between doctors and drug companies (as reported in Crikey yesterday), the spotlight should also be illuminating another influential profession’s conflicts of interest.
