Frances Westwick

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Frances Westwick works for myDr.com.au,[1] 'an Australian healthcare website dedicated to providing Australian consumers with the most comprehensive and relevant health information resource in Australia'. It is a project of MIMS Consumer Health Group which is a division of the global healthcare publishing company, UBM Medica.[2] Westwick was the Editorial Director at Excerpta Medica Australia in 2000, around the time the publisher started getting paid by drug companies to publish fake journals. [3]

Resources

Screengrab from Excerpta Medica's website from 2000

  • Excerpta MedicaRetrieved from the Internet Archive of 23 June 2000 on 26 August 2009.

Notes

  1. CHIK Services' Health-e-Nation 2007. Health e-Wellness Conference 2007 Accessed 19 November 2009.
  2. myDr.com.au About Us Accessed 19 November 2009.
  3. Sheldon Krimsky. 'Looks like an independently refereed journal? Don't be too sure; In medical publishing, the line between editorial and advertorial has become dangerously blurred', New Scientist, June 6, 2009, Comment and Analysis; Pg. 24-25