The BMJ has just published a new version of “Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical research: the GPP2 guidelines” These…
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General The GPP2 guidelines: revised version of Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical research
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General Daily Click: Coming to terms with traumatic death: stories from healthtalkonline
“True stories are not the best medicine but they are nutritious and sustaining”. So says Philip Pullman, award winning author, on the…
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Ghostwriting Further developments relating to Prempro and Wyeth documents
There were two interesting developments in the ongoing story of ghostwriting documents relating to Wyeth and Prempro. First on Friday 20th the…
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General Daily Click: Sense about Systematic Reviews
Sense about Science, “an independent charitable trust promoting good science and evidence in public debates” has just published a short briefing paper…
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General Last call for abstracts for the Geneva Health Forum 2010
The Geneva Health Forum is a biannual event organized by the Geneva University Hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of the University…
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Access Data sharing after publication
A paper published in PLoS ONE (Empirical Study of Data Sharing by Authors Publishing in PLoS Journals) last week highlighted the very…
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Ghostwriting Ghostwriting documents now fully available on PLoS Medicine website
The following editorial will be published in the September issue of PLoS Medicine but is being posted on this blog today to…
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Ghostwriting Successful intervention by PLoS Medicine and New York Times in Federal court grants public access to evidence that drug company ‘ghostwrote’ medical articles about hormone therapy drug, Prempro
Today an Arkansas federal judge granted public access today to evidence that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals “ghostwrote” medical articles regarding its hormone therapy drug…
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General PLoS Journals – measuring impact where it matters
Re-posted from the PLoS blog, by Mark Patterson, Director of Publishing, PLoS. In 2009, in this online world, how do most scientists…
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General New Universal Trial Number (UTN) from the WHO
The World Health Organisation has announced a new system to make clinical trials easier to identify. In a press release on June…
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General Daily Click: Investigating (dis)honesty
Among many other activities the British Science Association also runs the UK’s largest science festival each September. Topics this year include the…
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General Investigating ghostwriting
You may have seen a press release from US Senator Charles Grassley, who is asking several journals about their policy on ghost…