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On the Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma blog, Dr Howard Brody wrote about his discovery of a web-site entitled, "AIDS Pundits and Ties to Big Pharma," or by its more economic URL, www.shillfactor.net. The site catalogs, with a degree of sarcasm, the multitudinous financial ties to pharmaceutical manufacturers and biotechnology companies of some of the big wigs in the AIDS/ HIV research and academic world. Some of the individuals have truly amazing numbers of consulting jobs, leading the site writers to speculate how they ever have time to see patients or fulfill their academic responsibilities. The site contains pages for people who "control research," "vote on new drugs," "set treatment specs," "educate the field," "write and report," and ironically, "once were activists." The site is sponsored by Project THAMES, which stands for "transparency in HIV authorship, medical education and scientific investigation." Amazing.
Post Title → BLOGSCAN - "AIDS Pundits and Ties to Big Pharma"
On Question Authority with Dr Peter Rost there have been a series of posts, (the most recent one is here), about allegations that Pfizer Inc started marketing its new antiviral drug for HIV, maraviroc, before the drug received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Now Pharmalot has a post picking up the maraviroc story, and looking at related allegations that Pfizer improperly marketed its old antiviral drug Viracept (nelfinivir).
Post Title → BLOGSCAN - Dodgy marketing of Pfizer Anti-Viral Drugs
