Sexo en Astra Zeneca (Parte II)...

Ayer "posteamos" sobre este turbio affaire de "Sexo,mentiras y...Astra Zeneca... Hoy tenemos nuevos aportes.





Now, a new tale of conflict of interest has cropped up, one involving a senior medical official at AstraZeneca responsible for the drug Seroquel who had sexual relationships with a British researcher, who studied the drug and wrote positively of it, and with an American medical ghostwriter, who among other things assisted in writing two published academic papers known as BOLDER I and BOLDER II, in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2005 and the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology in 2006 that were at the heart of Seroquel's 2006 approval by the FDA for bipolar depression. According to court records, there is evidence Macfadden gave one of the women prescription painkillers and exchanged emails with them showing relationship of "control and dependence."

Simply put, I've never seen anything quite like these conflicts in my years of working the mental health beat.

"Anything like this clearly makes the data suspect if not dubious," says David Egilman, a Brown University professor and expert witness in one of the Zyprexa class action lawsuits (he was the initial leaker of the Zyprexa documents) and an expert on clinical trials and conflict of interest. "What are the journals, the FDA and the medical boards going to do when it becomes public?"

There are obviously all kinds of questions about conflict of interest in these relationships. Those questions, in my opinion, extend to the integrity of data, statistical methodology, study findings, publications, medical communications and drug approval applications tied to the BOLDER studies, as well as to many recent AstraZeneca-funded studies of Seroquel use in bipolar depression, as well as to several publications on schizophrenia and Seroquel.

Mas...

Será bueno que, a todo nuevo empleado de Astra Zeneca, se le provea de un ejemplar de esta
"Moral Victoriana" a modo de libro de cabecera o, mejor "Código de conducta"...,que en la cama hacen otras cosas y no tendrían tiempo para leer.
Buena falta les hace...