Medical Ethics and Advertising
General Information
NEWS:
10 Voters on Panel Backing Pain Pills Had Industry Ties
Advertising by Academic Medical Centers (Arch Intern Med. 2005)
Allegations of Fake Research Hit New High
Did Merck target doctors critical of Vioxx?
Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads Come Under Scrutiny
Doctors concerned about bogus research pushed by drug companies
Doctors Influenced By Mention Of Drug Ads
Doctors who write guidelines often have ties to the drug industry
response to above article: I'm confused why this is such a revelation
Document Shows Merck Researchers Pushed for Safer, Reformulated Vioxx in 2000
Documents Show Vioxx Sales Tactics
Drug Companies Influence Medical Research
Government Finds Celebrex Ads Misleading
Medical journals are corrupted by dependence on drug companies
Merck in hot seat over latest Vioxx report
NIH Inquiry Shows Widespread Ethical Lapses, Lawmaker Says
Senators Ask Drug Giant to Explain Grants to Doctors
Stem Cell Fraud Worries U.S. Scientists
Suit Charges Pfizer Misled Seniors About Lipitor
Texas Sues Merck For Downplaying Dangers Of Vioxx
Tropicana to Stop 'Healthy Heart' Claim
Vioxx aggressively marketed despite concerns
ARTICLES:
Doctors and the drug industry: How can we handle potential conflicts of interest?
Even pharmaceutical companies are vulnerable to loss of faith
Pharmaceutical Industry Funding for Residencies Sparks Controversy
Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature
Suspected research fraud: difficulties of getting at the truth
The influence of big pharma
The whole truth and nothing but the truth? The research that Philip Morris did not want you to see
The Company We Keep: Why Physicians Should Refuse to See Pharmaceutical Representatives
UK regulator to shame companies for misleading advertisements
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Cooperative partnerships or conflict-of-interest? A national survey of interaction between the pharmaceutical industry and medical organizations. (Intern Med J. 2005)
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of COX-2 Inhibitors: Effect on Appropriateness of Prescribing. (Med Care Res Rev. 2005)
Disclosing adverse events to patients. (Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2005)
Do drug samples influence resident prescribing behavior? A randomized trial. (Am J Med. 2005)
Ethical issues faced by nursing editors. (West J Nurs Res. 2005)
Ethics manual: fifth edition. (Ann Intern Med. 2005)
Internet marketing of bariatric surgery: Contemporary trends in the medicalization of obesity. (Soc Sci Med. 2005)
Pharmaceutical promotions and conflict of interest in nurse practitioner's decision making: The undiscovered country. (J Am Acad Nurse Pract. 2005)
Physician exposure to and attitudes toward advertisements for genetic tests for inherited cancer susceptibility. (Am J Med Genet A. 2005)
Press coverage and sales of Xenical in Sweden, 1998-2000. (Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2005)
Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature (PLOS Medicine 2005)
The availability of references and the sponsorship of original research cited in pharmaceutical advertisements (CMAJ 2005)
The complexities of individual financial conflicts of interest. (Neuropsychopharmacology. 2005)
The role of the pharmaceutical industry in teaching psychopharmacology: a growing problem. (Acad Psychiatry. 2005)
[The scientific information that the pharmaceutical industry provides to family doctors.] (Aten Primaria. 2005)
Understanding the legal implications of living wills. (Nurs Times. 2005)
Waking the dying: must we always attempt to involve critically ill patients in end-of-life decisions? (Chest. 2005)
When patients choose faith over medicine: physician perspectives on religiously related conflict in the medical encounter. (Arch Intern Med. 2005)
Who's buying lunch: are gifts to surgeons from industry bad for patients? (Thorac Surg Clin. 2005)
INTERNET SITES:
AMA - Principles of Medical Ethics, June 2001
Healthy Skepticism
Media Doctor
NIH - Bioethics Journals
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