DesignWrite
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DesignWrite is a medical communications company providing 'science-based educational programs', 'communication of trends in diagnosis and therapy' and 'creative prelaunch and market expansion programs'.[1]
Ghostwriting for Wyeth
Internal corporate documents show how Wyeth and DesignWrite worked together to create articles promoting hormone therapy therapy (HRT) from 1997. One article appeared in the The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published by Elsevier as an “Editors’ Choice” feature in 2003 claiming there is '"no definitive evidence" that progestins cause breast cancer and added that hormone users had a better chance of surviving cancer.' [2] The drug company's HRT drug, Prempro, is a combination of estrogen and progestin.[3] The publication supporting Prempro was "authored" by Dr. John Eden, but documents show how Wyeth suggested Dr. Eden write the paper and wrote the outline and draft of the manuscript for him.[4]
Contact
- Address:
- 175 Wall Street
- Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
- Tel - 609.924.1116
- Fax - 609.924.6648
- Website: http://www.dwrite.com/
Resources
- See Ghostwriting and Excerpta Medica
Notes
- ↑ DesignWrite. DesignWrite. Accessed 4 March 2010.
- ↑ Wilson, D. 12 December 2008. The New York Times. Drug Maker Said to Pay Ghostwriters for Journal Articles Accessed 6 March 2010.
- ↑ Wilson, D. 12 December 2008. The New York Times. Drug Maker Said to Pay Ghostwriters for Journal Articles Accessed 6 March 2010.
- ↑ Wilson, D. 12 December 2008. The New York Times. Drug Maker Said to Pay Ghostwriters for Journal Articles Accessed 6 March 2010.
