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Survey: Drug companies control study results
Some doctors troubled over drug makers' influence
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Posted: 5:27 PM EDT (2127 GMT)
(AP) -- Many U.S. medical schools are willing to give companies that sponsor studies of new drugs and treatments considerable control over the results, according to survey results that some doctors found troubling.
Half the schools said they would let pharmaceutical companies and makers of medical devices draft articles that appear in medical journals, and a quarter would allow them to supply the actual results. But academics draw the line at gag orders that keep researchers from publishing negative findings.
"This is totally beyond reasonable practice. What you're seeing here is a willingness by some institutions to give more leeway than they should," said Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a Yale University cardiologist and epidemiologist who was not involved in the survey.
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If half of the survey respondents replied that they do let the pharaceutical companies control the restults, to some extent, and acknowledging this could make them look bad, how many of the schools do you think are really doing it?
Some doctors troubled over drug makers' influence
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Posted: 5:27 PM EDT (2127 GMT)
(AP) -- Many U.S. medical schools are willing to give companies that sponsor studies of new drugs and treatments considerable control over the results, according to survey results that some doctors found troubling.
Half the schools said they would let pharmaceutical companies and makers of medical devices draft articles that appear in medical journals, and a quarter would allow them to supply the actual results. But academics draw the line at gag orders that keep researchers from publishing negative findings.
"This is totally beyond reasonable practice. What you're seeing here is a willingness by some institutions to give more leeway than they should," said Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a Yale University cardiologist and epidemiologist who was not involved in the survey.
( Read more... )
If half of the survey respondents replied that they do let the pharaceutical companies control the restults, to some extent, and acknowledging this could make them look bad, how many of the schools do you think are really doing it?
