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Pay for Crestor test, hype the results

6:53 PM Mon, Dec 01, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Conflict of interest to the Nth power. Astra-Zenecar, the maker of the statin drug Crestor, paid for a study hyping the very expensive, high-profit-margin drug (which has severe side-effects in some people). Findings appear in the (gullible?) New England Journal......

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