On 12-Aug-01 Ted Harding wrote:
> Greetings, Folks,
>
> Today's "Sunday Times" carries the story below.
> This looks grave. I missed the original happening.
> Does anyone have pointers to
>
> a) The story of the "case where Pharmacia was accused
> of duping JAMA" last year?
>
> b) Details of the steps being taken by the Lancet,
> BMJ, JAMA etc. to see that "the researchers involved
> are guaranteed scientific independence", failing which
> "Medical editors around the world will now refuse from
> next month to print drug-company sponsored studies"?
I have been poking around a bit since posting the above.
Of the stuff that came up, the following is particularly
relevant to (a):
Washington Post story (5 Aug 2001) about "data concealment"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33378-2001Aug4.html
Release from University of Illinois at Chicago
"reporting fewer deleterious GI side-effects of Celebrex"
http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/9/CELEBREX.UIC.html
A Pharmacia slide-show on the relative safety of Celecoxib
("Celebrex")
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/01/slides/3677s1_01_sponsor.pdf
Of relevance to (b), there seems to be only the statement in the
Washington Post story:
'For company-sponsored studies, JAMA now requires a statement,
signed by an author who is not employed by the company,
taking "responsibility for the integrity of the data and
the accuracy of the data analyses".'
And the best of luck ...
Ted.
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