Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...

The prevalence of musculoskeletal issues in clinical practice, and the limited focus placed upon musculoskeletal conditions by current electronic summary resources, highlights the need for a resource that provides access to simple and concise summaries of top-quality orthopedic literature for orthopedic surgeons and allied healthcare professionals. OrthoEvidence™ is an online clinical resource ...

Enhanced p l a in TJ$ macros and a bidding environment for typesetting bridge card distributions and bidding sequences are given as a follow-up to the IPW macros given in [12]. Moreover, macros for annotated printing of the course of the play are provided. Examples of use are included.

OBJECTIVE To assess students' opinion regarding the application of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Survey Methodology courses in medical research. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the opinion of the third and fourth year students regarding the relevance of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Survey Methodology courses, which are taught in the first two years, to medical res...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of people involved in medicine are under pressure to publish research, but there is little understanding of how to describe structured writing. AIM This paper aims to describe the structure of original research papers published in the British Journal of General Practice with a view to providing insight into the nature of such analyses, and particularly to help ...

â  â  a comparative study of books related to writing instruction in arabic language and subh al-asha â â â â â â â  ali zahed poor * â  â  abstract â â â  there are several books in arabic language on writing styles and instructions as well as the characteristics of writers. the present article is an attempt to introduce and critically and comparatively study the books written from the early o...

Traditional recovery mechanisms are not adequate in protecting databases from malicious attacks. A malicious transaction by virtue of writing on to the database can corrupt one or more data items; benign transactions reading these data items and writing on other data items can help spread the damage. To prevent the damage from spreading, it is important to assess the damage and confine it as qu...

The clinical case report is a popular genre in medical writing. While authors and editors have debated the justification for the clinical case report, few have attempted to examine the long history of this genre in medical literature. By reviewing selected literature and presenting and discussing excerpts of clinical case reports from Egyptian antiquity to the 20th century, we illustrate the pr...