Healthy Skepticism Updates
Update 2009-05-06
Healthy Skepticism Update May - June 2009
Recently posted in Healthy Skepticism International News ...
June 2009 Vol 27 No 6
Beyond the JAMA “Flap” (.pdf 255 Kb)
by Laura Boylan
A hot debate is going on about the Journal of the American Medical Association’s response to failure to disclose conflict of interest by Robert Robinson, the first author of a trial of escitalopram vs. problem solving therapy vs. placebo to prevent post stroke depression. This issue of Healthy Skepticism International News goes beyond that debate to present a time line of key events in the history of that trial.
May 2009 Vol 27 No 5
Proposal for an internet database of phamaceutical advertisements (.pdf 985 Kb)
by Staffan Svensson
"Consumers in one country are therefore often unaware of what goes on elsewhere, so the whole intellectual process of assessing the ads has to be started anew in each place. A system for making information about ads easily available could reduce such duplication of efforts and faciliate ad surveillance."
In other news ...
"Positioning Detrol (creating a disease)" has been gaining attention since it was uploaded to the Healthy Skepticism gallery by a member recently. This presentation by Pharmacia to the Pharmaceutical Marketing Research Group in 2002 outlines the strategies used to convert a "niche product into a Mass Marketing Opportunity". You can view it at: http://healthyskepticism.org/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/83
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