FIRM THAT PAID FOR UCSF STUDY SEEKS DAMAGES, FURIOUS THAT AIDS DRUG CAME UP SHORT. San Francisco Chronicle, Nov 1st. 2000. A Southern California pharmaceutical company is seeking $millions in damages after researchers at University of California at San Francisco insisted on publishing a report showing that an experimental AIDS drug did not work as planned. “Here is a company manipulating data to try to have a positive outcome." said Dr James Kahn, a UCSF clinician. He described it as a well-known tactic, known in research circles as ‘data dredging’.
FALSE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ‘ENDANGERING THE PUBLIC’, Independent News, Dec 13th 2000. Doctors are fabricating research results to win grants and advance their careers but the medical establishment is failing to protect the public from the menace of these scientific frauds, a committee of medical editors said yesterday. Eighty cases of fraudulent research have been detected in the past four years, and 30 have been investigated in the past year. In some cases, institutions have covered up wrongdoing to protect reputations…
BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION APPOINTS NEW SECRETARY BMA News Dec 6th 2000. Jeremy Strachan, an executive director of Glaxo Wellcome plc, has been appointed Secretary of the British Medical Association. Strachan had been closely involved with the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham and will join the BMA after completion of the merger, which is expected by the end of the year…
HOW A NEW POLICY LED TO SEVEN DEADLY DRUGS David Willman, LA Times, 20.12.2000. Once a wary watchdog, the US Food and Drug Administration set out to become a “partner" of the pharmaceutical industry. The perception of cosiness with drug makers is perpetuated by potential conflicts of interest within the FDA's 18 advisory committees. Some appointees double as consultants or researchers for the same companies whose products they are evaluating. The LA Times has also discovered that over the last decade, drug companies have steered over $44 million in contributions to the major political parties and to candidates for the White House and both houses of Congress...
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