Dec 4 2010
An investigative news piece finds that ghostwriters write medical studies, editorials and other works for a major drug company.
ProPublica: Drug Company Used Ghostwriters to Write Work Bylined By Academics, Documents Show
According to newly released documents from GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company often paid ghostwriters to pen medical studies, editorials and even a textbook that listed physicians as the authors.The documents—some of which date back to late 1990s—were recently unsealed in litigation over a GlaxoSmithKline product (Wang, 12/2).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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