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Reliance on pharma ads criticised.(drug ads in medical journals)(Brief article)

Australian Doctor,  May, 2006  by Jenkins, Rebecca

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By Rebecca Jenkins

MEDICAL journals have accepted an exclusive and dependent relationship with the pharmaceutical industry by only running drug ads, researchers say.

A study of nine medical journals found eight of them almost exclusively carried advertisements for drugs. The only exception was PLoS Medicine , which does not publish pharmaceutical ads. ...

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