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"Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies"
The article with this title, published in the May 2005 PLoS Medicine, is particularly interesting because the author was an editor of the British Medical ......(Continue Reading)
Who can cure the pharmaceuticals? Margaret Cook on how the influence of drugs companies has seeped, through their control of research and even of the official
"Trying to force a financial camel through the eye of a scientific needle" was the metaphor used to describe the Herculean task of regulating ......(Continue Reading)
Knocking at the door: small medical equipment companies feel left out by insurers' preferred provider networks
Walter Scarborough got his start in durable medical equipment when wheelchairs were wood. Today he sells and services high-tech motorized "power ......(Continue Reading)
Links to articles about Genzyme.
Genzyme Corporation is a biotechnology company that develops and markets products and services for unmet medical needs. The company has three divisions: Genzyme Biosurgery, Genzyme General, and Genzyme Molecular Oncology....(Continue Reading)
Lawsuit: Drug Company Illegally Marketed Neurontin for Bipolar Disorder
Not only does the lawsuit allege that Parke-Davis marketed Neurontin to physicians without FDA approval - but research studies say Neurontin is not effective for bipolar disorder after all....(Continue Reading)
Overdosed America
To what extent is the medical profession manipulated by the pharmaceutical companies? Of all the new medications that come on to the market how many are really new, or just re-packaged? In his book, 'Overdo America', John Abramson, MD makes......(Continue Reading)
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