The video Pfizer doesn't want you to see

http://thestar.blogs.com/ethics/2009/12/the-video-pfizer-doesnt-want-you-to-see.html

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The documents that have surfaced in the Wyeth cases offer a rare glimpse inside the file cabinets and hard drives of a major drug company. And the cases demonstrate the importance of litigation in detailing exactly how drug makers operate their businesses, says Dr. Jerome L. Avorn, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who has written about the subject in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

"The information coming out in litigation helps us understand how a belief in a 'protective benefit' of estrogens on the heart was able to spread like wildfire through the medical community," says Dr. Avorn, who is not involved in the Wyeth litigation.

"Thousands of doctors prescribed the drugs for millions of women on that basis," he says, adding that studies later contradicted the belief. "It will be very interesting to see whether the courts are able to connect the dots and make it clear whether this was a kind of medical ventriloquism on Wyeth's part."

http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/684982

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Sherwin is the first Canadian implicated in an ongoing scandal in the United States, where court documents - unsealed recently after a successful motion by The New York Times and the journal PLoS Medicine - have lifted the veil on the extent of ghostwriting in the pharmaceutical industry.

 

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Doubts were already being raised about hormone replacement therapy by the time Sherwin's article appeared. In 2002, two U.S. studies linked the therapy to breast cancer, ovarian cancer, heart disease, strokes and blood clots. Other studies found links to dementia.