Just because an article is published in a peer reviewed medical journal doesn’t mean it’s gospel.
Recently, in an on line publication entitled Natural News last month, it was revealed that research conducted by Pfizer was falsified.
“It’s being called the largest research fraud in medical history.” Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer’s speakers’ bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals. Now being reported across the mainstream media is the fact that Dr. Reuben accepted a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to study Celebrex in 2005. His research, which was published in a medical journal, has since been quoted by hundreds of other doctors and researchers as “proof” that Celebrex helped reduce pain during post-surgical recovery. There’s only one problem with all this: No patients were ever enrolled in the study!”
see http://www.prisonplanet.com/big-pharma-researcher-admits-to-faking-dozens-of-research-studies-for-pfizer-merck.html
Recently I was retained to cross examine a doctor in California. He was a well known professor at Sanford and was retained in a case arising out of New Mexico.
I decided to check New Mexico law to see if doctors from other states who rendered opinions (even though they didn’t even evaluate the patient) were barred from “practicing law” ie opining in a case in New Mexico.
Imagine the doctor’s surprise when he found out that doing a paper review in California constituted a 4th degree felony because he did not go thru the required process set forth by the New Mexico Board of medicine.
I had another case in Louisiana wherein the doctor was in another state. Same problem.
SO, when the defense drags in a high priced DME (Defense medical exam) from another state… it may be a serious problem for them.
The FDA sent a letter to Eli Lilly for the advertisement regarding Cymbalta, claiming it was misleading. Check it out here.
Gregoire Alix reports for Le Monde from
the Dutch city of Apeldoorn: “‘In 2020, all energy consumed in Apeldoorn
will have to be renewable, without fossil fuels, without nuclear power,
and produced in our own city.’ With graphs for support, Michael Boddeke,
the official in charge of sustainable development for this city that
looks like a blossoming village at the center of the Netherlands, is
optimistic: solar, wind, and biogas from organic waste and wastewater
should suffice to warm and light this town of 156,000 residents.”
Read the full story here.
Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear, The Washington Post: “The White House scrambled yesterday to assuage worries from liberal groups about Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s scant record on abortion rights, delivering strong but vague assurances that the Supreme Court nominee agrees with President Obama’s belief in constitutional protections for a woman’s right to the procedure.”
Read the full article here.