Document Claims Drug Makers Deceived a Top Medical Journal – The New York Times

Read article - Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted about how two pharmaceutical companies—Johnson & Johnson and Bayer—and researchers from Duke University omitted critical laboratory data from a letter published in The New England Journal of Medicine in an effort to protect their blockbuster anticlotting drug. "It just feels like it's a real ethical breach," says Schwartz. "If you know the direct answer to this question, then how can you not provide it to be able to give insight?"