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Iowa's Charles Grassley prescribing honesty for Rx makers

By Steve Lombardi

pp class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt"Our colleague a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/David-Mittleman/"Dave Mittleman/a from Michigan has a good post today about our own Senator Charles Grassley titled a href="http://lansing.injuryboard.com/miscellaneous/haunting-medical-journals.aspx?googleid=253568"Haunting Medical Journals/a. This is a must read for anyone associated with any medical care issue, including federal preemption. Follow the link to read Daversquo;s post. /p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt" /p blockquote p class="NormalWeb60" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt"quot;Senator a href="http://grassley.senate.gov/"Charles Grassley/a of Iowa has begun an inquiry into the use of a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/business/13wyeth.html?_r=2amp;ref=todayspaper"ghostwriters/a bya href="http://www.wyeth.com/" Wyeth Pharmaceuticals/a, to produce medical journals favorable to its a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hormonereplacementtherapy.html"hormone replacement therapy/a drug a href="http://www.prempro.com/index.aspx"Prempro/a. The Senator has asked Wyeth and a href="http://www.design-write.com/"Design Write/a, the medical ghostwriting company, to disclose the payments and activities related to the production of the articles and doctors whose names wound up on the publications./p p class="NormalWeb60" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt"The Senator wrote to the CEO of Wyeth, a href="http://people.forbes.com/profile/bernard-j-poussot/87414"Bernard J. Poussot/a, saying that quot;[a]ny attempt to manipulate the scientific literature, that can in turn mislead doctors to prescribe drugs that may not work and/or cause harm to their patients, is very troubling.quot;/p /blockquote pAn excellent post from a MIchigan lawyer who knows more about the damage done by federal preemption than I'm sure he wants to admit to. Well written Dave./p/pa href="http://desmoines.injuryboard.com/fda-and-prescription-drugs/iowas-charles-grassley-prescribing-honesty-for-rx-makers.aspx?googleid=253728"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Steve-Lombardi"Steve Lombardi/a

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).