From evidence-based to Marketing based medicine
(follow up on Tena's posting about bone thinning drugs; this article concerns psychiatriac drugs)
http://freepdfhosting.com/ebaef05bfe.pdf From Evidence-based Medicine to Marketing-based Medicine: Evidence from Internal Industry Documents Glen I. Spielmans & Peter I. Parry Abstract While much excitement has been generated surrounding evidence-based medicine, internal documents from the pharmaceutical industry suggest that the publicly available evidence base may not accurately represent the underlying data regarding its products. The industry and its associated medical communication firms state that publications in the medical literature primarily serve marketing interests. Suppression and spinning of negative data and ghostwriting have emerged as tools to help manage medical journal publications to best suit product sales, while disease mongering and market segmentation of physicians are also used to efficiently maximize profits. We propose that while evidence-based medicine is a noble ideal, marketing-based medicine is the current reality. |
watchdogs needed
madelyn,
That's why i am all over this clumping of pd dementia with alzheimers. They are opposite illnesses and people are taking an anticholinergic with cholinesterase inhibitors. Does that work? Can one take aricept with artane? One blocks the enzyme to raise acetylcholine and the other helps the enzyme to lower it. But the research that i have found is all about alzheimers meds. paula |
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