The haunting of medical journals: how ghostwriting sold "HRT".
Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.
Fugh-Berman
Adriane J
AJ
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA. ajf29@georgetown.edu
D004345:Drug Industry; D035081:Editorial Policies; D020249:Hormone Replacement Therapy / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D018156:Journalism, Medical; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D015871:Scientific Misconduct / Q000941:ethics*