The NY Times reports that Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, has raised questions about whether pharmaceutical giant Wyeth improperly ghost-writed a medical journal article disputing a federal study linking its hormone product Prempro to breast cancer in women.
Grassley has alleged that Wyeth had medical writing firms draft articles and then lined up doctors to put their names on them.
Wyeth is the defendant in the preemption case recently argued and yet to be decided by the Supreme Court in which it is arguing that drug manufacturers should be immune from failure to warn lawsuits if the FDA has approved the drug’s label.
This article reminds me of how in some areas of medical malpractice, doctors have authored articles that are based on questionable science that are routinely relied on by defendants at the time of trial.
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