Ghostwritten articles overstate benefits of hormone replacement therapy and downplay harms

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 16:49 in Health & Medicine

The first academic analysis of the 1500 documents unsealed in recent litigation against the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) reveals unprecedented insights into how pharmaceutical companies use ghostwriters to insert marketing messages into articles published in medical journals.

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