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drmikethompson(Dr. T's Health Tips)

PHARMA Influenced Medical Journals

 

DRUG COMPANIES CONTROL MEDICAL JOURNALS

 

Will the American public ever get the un-tainted truth from our

country's medical profession? According to an August announcement from

the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), they'll never

publish the truth.

 

Catherine DeAngelis, editor-in-chief of JAMA, says that she and other

medical journal editors have decided not to risk being sued by drug

companies for antitrust by banning authors with financial conflicts of

interest to those companies.

 

In a nut shell, JAMA will continue to publish half-true and biased

articles written by authors who hold strong ties to the pharmaceutical

industry.

 

The general public is simply asking that JAMA disclose the financial

ties their authors may have to drug companies. These authors can still

publish their articles, all we want to know is who does that author work

for? Are they an employee of the drug company they're writing about?

 

None-the-less, JAMA refuses to make this information known for fear of

being sued. Sued? Is it wrong to tell the truth? Unfortunately, the

biggest " wrong " in the whole equation is that pharmaceutical companies

have gained so much power over the medical profession that they are now

able to control what is and is not being published.

 

Here's an example:

JAMA ran an article that talked about a link between migraines and heart

disease, and how to treat these conditions. As it turns out, all of the

study's six authors had ties to a drug company that makes migraine and

heart disease drugs. This means the article may have been slanted in

favor of the drugs when, in an honest world, it should not have been.

 

In another incident, JAMA admitted that an article written about

depression was actually mostly authored by people who had been paid to

be speakers or consultants for the makers of antidepressant drugs.

 

It's clear; drug companies have an agenda, and it's slowly taking

control of our medical journals. The question is can anyone stop them?

robert, if you know of anyone who is presently taking toxic

pharmaceutical drugs, be sure and ask them if they are aware of their

side effects and if they have discussed with their 'doctor' the

possibilities of alternative methods to resolve their problems in

comparison to relying on synthetic chemicals to improve health.

 

That is, if you care for their well being.

 

Until next time,

Dr. Mike

www.BioTruth.com

 

[source: Newstarget.com, 8/8/06]

 

" The Doctor of the Future will give NO Medicine, but will interest his

patients in diet and nutrition, exercise and the care of the human

frame. He will teach them about the cause of ALL disease. "

-Thomas Edison

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