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Pissing Match Over Kidney Treatment--Did Marketing Concerns Trump Good Medicine?

  • February 07, 2004

The Washington Post documents how three senior scientists at a medical journal (world's largest and oldest renal care journal) approved an editorial that took a strong unfavorable position regarding prescribing an expensive drug for kidney dialysis patients. Then the journal's marketing department, not the scientists, pulled the editorial so they would not lose any advertising money from the drug company. You should be very concerned about the pervasive influence of the pharmaceutical...