Media reports on pharmaceuticals may be skewed towards commercial interests
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DiscussionMembers of the public have the right to expect to be presented with unbiased and objective facts when they read news articles about health and medical research. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be happening, and most certainly not happening enough.”As a doctor, I am increasingly worried in recent years that company-funded research can’t be trusted in the same way that other research can be trusted,” said Dr Hochman.”All of us, doctors, patients, journalists, have gotten into a bad habit of referring to medications by their proprietary brand names. At a philosophical level, I think we need to be referring to them by the generic name. We want to keep commercial interests as much out of the doctor-patient relationship as possible,” he added.Andrew Holtz, independent journalist, …
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Media reports on pharmaceuticals may be skewed towards commercial interests
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