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As the investigative medical journalist Jeanne Lenzer reports in her Essay for PLoS Medicine [6], the whistleblowers spoke of public regulatory agencies that are putting the interests of drug companies ahead of the safety of patients, and of pharmaceutical companies that allow their marketing departments to knowingly downplay serious side effects when promoting their drugs.
Half of the respondents reported using pharmaceutical drugs during their pregnancy, with Diclectin ®being the most commonly used medication (used by two-thirds of those who indicated that they had taken medication).
One study found that, of 127 cancer protocols sponsored by pharmaceutical companies that met criteria for inclusion, only 48% were in fact submitted to the registry [5].
However, without the least bit of acknowledged irony, medical journals have begun publishing articles about how pharmaceutical industry advertising and marketing drives clinical practice in nonrational ways while at the same time publishing the very advertisements they critique.
PLoS Medicine will not accept advertisements for pharmaceutical products or medical devices.