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Wyeth paid ghostwriters to draft articles promoting its hormones, PLoS Medicine and New York Times say

BMJ 2009; 339 doi: 10.1136/bmj.b3288 (Published 11 August 2009)
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  1. Janice Hopkins Tanne
  1. 1New York

    The drug firm Wyeth has defended itself after court documents seemed to show that it paid a medical communications company to draft articles promoting the use of its hormone replacement therapies.

    A news story in the New York Times (www.nytimes.com, 5 Aug, “Medical papers by ghostwriters pushed therapy”) said that the documents on ghostwriting were uncovered by lawyers suing Wyeth and were made public after a request in court from the medical journal PLoS Medicine and the New York Times.

    The New York Times story said: “The court documents provide a detailed paper …

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