The haunting of medical journals: how ghostwriting sold "HRT".
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 20838656.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000335 and PMC identifier 2935455.
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Abstract
Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.
Medical subject headings
- Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Journalism, Medical
- Scientific Misconduct