Margaret McCartney: Medical journals and their parasitical profit
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Margaret McCartney: Medical journals and their parasitical profit.
Medical publishing is lucrative, but it is a parasitical profit, with rich pickings for the drug industry. The New England Journal of Medicine has set out its industry stall: in 1996 it decided that editorialists and reviewers should lack financial interests in the area under discussion, but it relaxed this policy in 2002. Its editor, Jeffrey M Drazen, recently wrote that he had made it “harder...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h2832