title: The haunting of medical journals: how ghostwriting sold "HRT".
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA. ajf29@georgetown.edu
authors.forename: Adriane J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Fugh-Berman
mesh_terms: 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*