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Experts criticise industry sponsorship of articles on health policy in Australian newspaper

BMJ 2011; 343 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d6903 (Published 25 October 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;343:d6903

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When I wrote this article for the BMJ, I had only seen a number of
newspaper articles and video reports from the Medicines Australia
sponsored series. Now I realise there is also a glossy 24-page colour
magazine which brings together some of the newspaper articles, the results
of a Newspoll survey of peoples' attitudes about their health and health
services, as well as advertorials featuring various aspects of the
medicines industry, and advertisements for The Australian Medicines
Industry.

Competing interests: Declared on the article already.

26 October 2011
Melissa A Sweet
Journalist
Self-employed