Ghostwriting by drug company pollutes the medical science
August 05, 2009
Topic: Miller Curtis & Weisbrod Blog
A frightening set of facts is beginning to surface out from under the veil of confidentiality in a courtroom in Little Rock, Arkansas. Wyeth is a drug company that makes different pharmaceutical drugs, and one of it's best selling drugs over the years was Premarin - a hormone given to millions and millions of women when they reached menopausal age. The idea behind the drug was to ease the symptoms of menopause, and many other benefits that were described in different medical journals.
It turns out, many of those journal articles were actually written by Wyeth - but published under someone else's name. The article from the New York Times tells just the first little bit of the story.
Wyeth's marketing machinery would concoct a theme for an article, and then would hire an outside ghostwriting company to put together the article. The ghostwriting company then shops the "article" around to find a doctor who'll allow their name to be used on the article. And then, the article makes it's way into the literature and is touted as "proof of the benefits" of the drug Premarin. Yet the article never mentions that the idea and the actual writing of the article began with Wyeth itself.
The tip of the iceberg is described by the times. And Wyeth is not alone in the world of ghostwriting - Merck was found to be doing a similar thing in their drug Vioxx. Patients shouldn't be subjected to this pollution of the medical science. And doctors should be hypervigilant in their review of the literature - knowing full well that a frightening amount of current "science" isn't truly accurate, having been cooked up by a drug company trying to sell more drugs.
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