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Australasian Business Intelligence, June, 2009
Byline: Milanda Rout
Jun 18, 2009 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- In the class action case brought by sufferers from alleged side-effects of the Vioxx anti-arthritis drug against manufacturer Merck, the Federal Court of Australia has heard that international medical publisher Elsevier gave the pharmaceutical company a choice of which articles to include in a journal. Revelations that the "Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine" was in fact a sponsored publication have already forced Elsevier to publicly apologise.
Publication Date: 19 June 2009
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