--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't know if you're still sparring with Skolnick > over the TM page, but I thought you might at least > get a chuckle out of this. Doesn't sound as though > JAMA plans to have one of its news editors write a > muckraking expose of these researchers, does it? > > July 13, 2006 > Medical Journal Says It Was Again Misled > By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS > > CHICAGO, July 12 For the second time in two months, The Journal of > the American Medical Association says it was misled by researchers > who failed to reveal financial ties to drug companies. > > The journal is tightening its policies for researchers as a result. > > Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, the journal's editor in chief, > > said her main concern was the impact on readers, who she said needed > to know about researchers' financial conflicts of interest to > properly evaluate their studies. > > The latest incident, disclosed in letters to the editor and a > correction in Wednesday's journal, involves a study showing that > pregnant women who stop taking antidepressants risk slipping back > into depression. > > Most of the 13 authors have financial ties to drug companies > including antidepressant makers, but only two of them revealed their > ties when the study was published in February. > > Antidepressant use during pregnancy is controversial, and some > studies have suggested that the drugs could pose risks to the fetus. > > The authors of the study defended their research in a letter to the > editor published Wednesday. The lead author, Dr. Lee Cohen of > Massachusetts General Hospital, who is on the speaker's bureau for > eight drug companies, disputed that such ties could influence > findings. >
Andrew is no longer part of the medical estasblishment. He's too radical. They used him for their little anti-alternative medicine thing and now that the pharmaceuticals are getting involved, there's no point in having him or anyone like him, around. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
