The productive collaboration between the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today has produced another strong story on conflicts of interest in medicine.
The latest story comes out of a Senate investigation prompted in part by the Journal Sentinel's earlier stories by John Fauber, who wrote this one, too.
Here's the lede:
Medtronic marketing employees were secretly involved in drafting and editing favorable medical journal articles about the company's lucrative back surgery product while the company paid millions to the surgeons whose names lent weight to the studies, documents from a U.S. Senate investigation reveal.
Follow the link to read on from there. It will be worth your time.
-Paul Raeburn
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