As mentioned at the previous post and in an article in today’s Crikey bulletin, the related issues of conflicts of interest and pharma marketing are a fertile field for investigation by researchers and journalists.
You can get some sense of this from the list of recent articles in this conflicts of interest document.
This compilation is from Healthy Skepticism, and is provided as a free email update service to journalists (worth signing up for in my book).
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Drugs for heart disease and for AIDS were a feature of the 1980s, involving challenges to regulatory bodies and a faster approval process.-Joe Zanotti