Company defends "campaign to `counter' BMJ claims"

doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7390.660

BMJ 2003;326:660 ( 22 March )

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Company defends "campaign to `counter' BMJ claims"

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EDITOR $---$ We disagree with the conclusions of Moynihan in his news item on our company's so called campaign to counter claimsmade in his education and debate article on female sexual dysfunction. ¹ ²

We are a full service communications company specialising in life science and healthcare communications and manage a widevariety of communications programmes to high ethical standards.These programmes include awareness campaigns to support recruitmentof potential participants into clinical trials. These trials aregoverned by strict ethical and regulatory guidelines and our campaignsare developed and managed in accordance withthem.

We agree with the BMJ in publishing Moynihan's article, which has been useful in highlighting the wide variety of views heldby many women and their physicians on female sexual dysfunction.We note that three weeks after the article was published morethan 40 authors with views different from those in the articlehad sent electronic responses . . . [Full text of this article]