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Saturday, January 29, 2005An article by Jeanne Lenzer in our 1 January issue (BMJ 2005;330:7) reported that the US Food and Drug Administration was to review confidential Eli Lilly documents that had been sent to the BMJ by an anonymous source. The article stated that these documents had gone 'missing' during a 1994 product liability suit filed against Eli Lilly. That statement has been the subject of a detailed investigation conducted by the BMJ following a complaint by Eli Lilly. That investigation has revealed that all of the documents supplied to the BMJ that were either Eli Lilly documents or were in the hands of Eli Lilly had in fact been disclosed during the suit. At the end of the trial, all the documents were preserved by Court Order or were disclosed by Eli Lilly to the plaintiffs' lawyers in related Prozac claims. The original article, no longer available online unless you want to pay $8, did make Eli Lilly look pretty bad (a copy of it is here.) Now, how do you get all the newspapers who published the original story to publish this one, too, and with the same amount of sensationalism? posted by Sydney on 1/29/2005 11:56:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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