All Posts Tagged With: "confict of interest"
Compounding association urges women’s health groups to reveal ties with Wyeth
Stung by the warning letter the Food & Drug Administration has issued to seven pharmacies over their compounding of bio-identical hormones, the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) has just issued a press release. The release states that two groups that are “supposedly independent women’s health organizations” have actually received funding from Wyeth, which had [...]
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18Feb2008 | PharmaWatchDog | 0 comments | Continued
New Marketing Opportunity for Big Pharma
Our government and big pharma = perfect together.
The government has published guidance promoting partnerships between the National Health Service and the pharmaceutical industry, in a new tactic to improve patient care and help the service meet the rapidly changing demands of the 21st century.
Given its extensive knowledge on illnesses and innovative medicines, the industry certainly [...]
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5Feb2008 | PharmaWatchDog | 0 comments | Continued
Doctor Accused of Leak to Drug Maker
The New York Times is on fire today with great articles about the pharmaceuticals.
A leading member of the Senate said Wednesday that a prominent diabetes expert had leaked an unpublished and confidential medical journal article to GlaxoSmithKline last year, tipping the company to the imminent publication of safety questions involving the company’s diabetes drug Avandia.
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Financial Ties Are Cited as Issue in Spine Study
Some of the nation’s most prominent spine surgeons hailed it as a medical breakthrough.
In a study of nearly 240 patients with lower back pain, the doctors said that the Prodisc, an artificial spinal disk, had worked much better than conventional surgery in which patients’ vertebrae were fused…
As it turns out, Dr. Zigler had more than [...]
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30Jan2008 | PharmaWatchDog | 0 comments | Continued
Pharmaceutical Company Influence on our Teaching Centers
About 60% of department heads at medical schools and teaching hospitals in the U.S. have personal financial relationships with pharmaceutical or medical device companies, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers sent a survey to department heads at all 125 accredited medical schools and [...]
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