Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3666

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Publication type: Journal Article

Beasley R, Crane J, Burgess C, Pearce N, Jackson R.
Fenoterol and severe asthma mortality
New Zealand Medical Journal 1989; 102:294-295

Abstract:

Prior to the publication of a study showing a correlation between prescribing fenoterol and asthma deaths in New Zealand, Boehringer Ingelheim circulated to doctors and media misleading information about the study.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/New Zealand/ Boehringer Ingelheim/ asthma/ disinformation/ fenoterol/PROMOTION DISGUISED: DISINFORMATION AND HARASSMENT