PLoS Medicine (Sep 2010)

The haunting of medical journals: how ghostwriting sold "HRT".

  • Adriane J Fugh-Berman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000335
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 9
p. e1000335

Abstract

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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.