Big Pharma’s Criminal / Civil Settlements
Cholesterol Myths Debunked–Bad News for Statin Drug manufacturers Fri, 11 Jul 2003 The demise of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is not the only case of medical fraud perpetrated by the medical establishment whose practitioners’ professional judgment and clinical practice is too often guided by the pharmaceutical industry. A major scientific…
Medical researchers who commit fraud and research misconduct are caught only when a person of conscience steps up to the plate and blows the whistle. There are no systemic, independent checks and balances to prevent research fraud or abuse of patients.
An independent review by a team of German analysts published in the American Journal of Psychiatry confirms that corporate bias is ubiquitous in clinical trials.
"When you’re selling $1 billion a year or more of a drug, it’s very tempting for a company to just ignore the traffic ticket and keep speeding.”
Medtronic acknowledged that some of the consulting payments occurred during the time that Dr. Kuklo, was shopping his favorable study of Medtronic’s Infuse bone-graft product to medical journals.
