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The links between the pharmaceutical industry and doctors are many and tangled. Drug companies are keen to schmooze doctors and, directly or not, persuade clinicians to prescribe their drug instead of a similar one by a competitor. One way that drug companies try to influence doctors is by sponsoring events, such as conferences or lectures. [...]
The journal Archives of Internal Medicine has a several cracking research papers this week. Low carb dieters are grumpier than those on low fat diets First up is Brinkworth et al.‘s research on the long-term psychological effects of low carbohydrate diets compared with low fat diets. In this study, 106 overweight and obese individuals were [...]
A study published in Archives of Internal Medicine has found that almost a third of clinical trials reported in top medical journals don’t adequately report the side effects of the intervention being tested. Pitrou et al. assessed the reporting of safety data in 133 randomised controlled trials published between January 2006 and January 2007 in [...]