Are Drug Makers Influencing Your Doctor?
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Dec. 23, 2004 - When patients visit their doctor for medical care and advice, most believe they are getting unbiased medical attention that puts the patient&#39;s well-being first.
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Like a dark variation on a Q-rating, you can almost measure a public figure's influence by the number of calls generated by his or her medical crisis.
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Doctors are being urged to think twice before prescribing certain painkillers in light of new evidence suggesting they may increase cardiovascular risk.
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NEW YORK  - Physicians frequently disclose information about themselves to patients, new research shows, and contrary to what some researchers believe, this does not enhance the doctor-patient relationship and may actually be disruptive.
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Outside experts who advise the government on drugs and other regulated products often have financial ties to industry, creating the potential for conflicts of interest.
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The Royal Society is to investigate how a person&#39;s individual genetic make-up could affect the way medicine works on them. It is hoped that the research will allow medical professionals to eventually tailor-make drugs to suit the patient.
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Intensive-care doctors monitor patients from miles away. Also: Vioxx might be responsible for more deaths than thought.... New network in southern India gives government a big boost.... and more.
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A battle between insurers and drug companies could determine how many medicines will be available to beneficiaries.
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The debate over the disclosure of clinical drug trials could reach a turning point this week, with editors of influential medical journals expected to call for fundamental changes.
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Six physicians with financial ties to Johnson &amp; Johnson and other heart-device makers will be advising US regulators whether to restrict the use of some products because of potentially lethal side effects.
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Fears that money has an undue influence on the practice of medicine are not new. In the 12th century, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides wrote an oath for physicians that included this admonition: ''Do not allow thirst for profit, ambition for renown and admiration to interfere with my profession.&quot;
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TUESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors who participated in a drug company-sponsored trial of asthma medications were more likely to prescribe that company's drugs.
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An investigation has been launched to investigate whether drug firms have been fixing the market to squeeze out copycat medicines
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A survey of hospital review boards that watchdog experiments on patients shows that one in three members takes money from companies that make drugs and medical devices that come under study.
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Makers of the leading antidepressant drugs may be required to tell doctors more about potential suicide risk among children and teenagers taking the pills, regulators said yesterday.
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The billions that drug companies  spend on personal visits to promote new drugs and hand out free  samples to doctors have little effect on how doctors prescribe  drugs, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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Drug companies have become the biggest sponsors of continuing medical education courses in recent years, even at the nation's top medical schools, a development that critics say raises health-care costs, skews doctors' treatment decisions and allows the industry to skirt laws against advertising ...