Misleading medical research common: JAMA editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Misleading research is often published in major medical journals and doctors are lending their names to it, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association said on Tuesday.
Doctors, regulators, publishers and others are all taking money, information and small presents from pharmaceutical companies and being influenced in the process, said Dr. Catherine DeAngelis.
"It goes for all of us," DeAngelis, whose journal is influential nationally and globally, said in a telephone interview.
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This comes as Merck is accused of ghostwriting articles about its drugs and reports that the drug companies are beefing up their sales efforts.
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We suspect that this is the tip of the iceberg and that it runs across all of the health professions, from nutrition to sportsmedicine. Or are there other explanations for nutrition associations pushing chocolate as an "essential part of the diet"? -- Ed.