http://menstruationresearch.org/2009/08/05/big-pharma-uses-ghostwriters-to-promote-hrt/ Blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://menstruationresearch.org/2009/08/05/big-pharma-uses-ghostwriters-to-promote-hrt/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Elizabeth Kissling Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:28:25 +0000 http://menstruationresearch.org/?p=242#comment-15 We now know for sure that ghostwriters have been used in medical journal articles for all kinds of pharmaceutical products, Leslie. Did you see this recent piece in the <em>New York Times</em>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/business/11ghost.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">Ghostwriting Is Called Rife in Medical Journals</a>? Apparently some editors are now trying to take a stand: <a href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000156" rel="nofollow">PLoS Medicine published an editorial</a>, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/business/18ghost.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">this piece ran in the <em>New York Times</em> on Thursday</a>. We now know for sure that ghostwriters have been used in medical journal articles for all kinds of pharmaceutical products, Leslie. Did you see this recent piece in the New York Times, Ghostwriting Is Called Rife in Medical Journals? Apparently some editors are now trying to take a stand: PLoS Medicine published an editorial, and this piece ran in the New York Times on Thursday.

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