Rosenberg and Pringle , what a team!

Selling Marked Up Drugs with Made Up Patients-- Part Two by Martha Rosenberg and Evelyn Pringle No drug ads or Pharma sponsors dot the website of the Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation which has renamed itself the Zen-like "Balanced Mind Foundation." (Meditation/medication--same idea, right?) Instead, visitors to the site will find slick slide shows, tales of children saved by bipolar drugs and a list of donor families. But according to the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry the actual guidelines the Balanced Mind Foundation uses to discern bipolar disorder in children and adolescents were funded by Abbott, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Forest, Janssen, Novartis and Pfizer. Oops. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the group that produces the journal, is also viewed as a possible Pharma front organization. Its journal is where Paxil's "study 329," which buried the suicide risks of the antidepressant in adolescents leading to wide use, appeared. Court proceedings brought by the New York Attorney General in 2004 revealed the research was not even written by the 22 doctors and researchers listed but by the marketing firm of GlaxoSmithKline who makes Paxil, Scientific Therapeutics Information. What? "You did a superb job with this," wrote the paper's first so-called author, Brown University's Martin Keller to Scientific Therapeutics Information's ghostwriter Sally Laden. "It is excellent. Enclosed are rather minor changes f...
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