Administrator's note: We included a similar article by Dan Abshear - The Human Injury of Lost Objectivity: An Insider’s Look into the Corruption of Clinical Trials. This is a copy of the comments he posted on The Scientist. These comments include specific references to legal and … [Read more...] about The Atrophy Of Objectivity
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The Human Injury of Lost Objectivity: An Insider’s Look into the Corruption of Clinical Trials
by Dan Abshear If I were to rate the corruptive tactics performed by big pharmaceutical companies, the intentional corruption of implementing fabricated and unreliable results of clinical trials would be at the top of the list. Pharmaceutical companies manipulate the trials they … [Read more...] about The Human Injury of Lost Objectivity: An Insider’s Look into the Corruption of Clinical Trials
Pfizer’s Reorg Focuses on Biotech
Pfizer has announced its reorganization strategy with Wyeth. The research operations will be broken into two units: a biotechnology unit led by a Wyeth senior executive, and a pharmaceutical group led by a Pfizer scientist. The plan hopes to smoothly integrate Pfizer and Wyeth … [Read more...] about Pfizer’s Reorg Focuses on Biotech
Big Pharma, Seriously in Touch With the Feminine Side
Profiting though understanding what motivates women to action Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, filmmaker, talk radio host and commentator, laid out Big Pharma’s marketing mission in a brilliant article, ‘Pharma: Still Chasing Skirts’, posted on March 13, 2009 to … [Read more...] about Big Pharma, Seriously in Touch With the Feminine Side
The Is A Good START
Published at www.nejm.org March 18, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMe0902377) The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 Gregory D. Curfman, M.D., Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D. … [Read more...] about The Is A Good START