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Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies

Medical journals have become dependent on the pharmaceutical industry for their survival, which can have a corrupting influence on their content, argues Smith, the former editor of the BMJ.

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Autor principal: Smith, Richard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1140949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15916457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138
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spelling pubmed-11409492005-05-31 Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies Smith, Richard PLoS Med Essay Medical journals have become dependent on the pharmaceutical industry for their survival, which can have a corrupting influence on their content, argues Smith, the former editor of the BMJ. Public Library of Science 2005-05 2005-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC1140949/ /pubmed/15916457 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138 Text en Copyright: © 2005 Richard Smith. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies
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title_short Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15916457
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