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Oversight Of Marketing Relationships Between Physicians And The Drug And Device Industry: A Comparative Study, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Oversight Of Marketing Relationships Between Physicians And The Drug And Device Industry: A Comparative Study, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
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Throughout the world, complex mutually-dependent relationships exist between physicians and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. This articlef ocuses on one particulara spect of these relationships--paymentsm ade by drug and device companies to physicians and their organizations and institutions to market drugs and devices. It is widely believed that drug and device company marketing to physicians creates conflicts of interest that corrupt physician judgment and increase the cost of medical care. This article examines first the economic basis of physician/industry relationships that causes conflicts to arise. It next considers the measures that a number of developed countries have taken to respond …
The Death Of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence Of The Influence Of Money And Prestige In Human Research, Robin Fretwell Wilson
The Death Of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence Of The Influence Of Money And Prestige In Human Research, Robin Fretwell Wilson
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Ten years ago, Jesse Gelsinger died while participating in a human gene therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”). His death came to signify the corrosive influence of financial interests in human subjects research. After Jesse's death, the media reported that one researcher. Dr. James Wilson, held shares in a biotech company, Genovo, which stood to gain from the research's outcome — shares that The Wall Street Journal later valued at $13.5 million, although Wilson maintains he did not make nearly this much. At the time Penn authorized Wilson's deal, internal Penn documents implicitly valued Wilson's stake in Genovo …