September 14, 2009
Ghostwriters Haunt the Integrity of Medical Journals
Company-sponsored contributors enhance, without disclosure, university researchers' papers
DesignWrite office: Aldo Martinez, Lisa Shulman: U. of Maryland Medical Center
As a young neurologist, Lisa M. Shulman accepted help on a journal article from DesignWrite, a communications company hired by a pharmaceutical maker.
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DesignWrite office: Aldo Martinez, Lisa Shulman: U. of Maryland Medical Center
As a young neurologist, Lisa M. Shulman accepted help on a journal article from DesignWrite, a communications company hired by a pharmaceutical maker.
Vancouver, B.C.
When a company hired by a pharmaceutical manufacturer offered to help Lisa M. Shulman write a research article, Dr. Shulman was very interested in aid. She had just reached the rank of assistant professor of neurology at the University of Miami and was overworked and under-resourced, serving a fellowship on Capitol Hill.
Dr. Shulman let the company, DesignWrite, select background information on connections between estrogen and Parkinson's disease, and then let it draft a proposed
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