Background With increasing restrictions placed on physician–industry interactions, industry
marketing may target other health professionals. Recent health policy developments confer …

The availability of life saving pharmaceutical products by their very nature plays a prominent
role in the well being of a society. Within this context, the pharmaceutical industry plays a …

Background The pharmaceutical industry invests heavily in promotion, and it uses a variety
of promotional strategies to influence physicians' prescribing decisions. Within this context …

This paper explores how health consumer groups in the UK disclose and manage links with
pharmaceutical companies in the context of their growing involvement in the policy process …

This article investigates the extent to which Australian journalists considered the potential
conflicts of interest of expert sources during their reporting of the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) …

Background: This study investigated the 'gift‐relationship'between pharmaceutical
companies and doctors. Methods: The study was based on a survey questionnaire of 823 …

To investigate differences in the content of websites funded, and not funded, by drug
companies, the top 50 websites about 'schizophrenia'in Google and Yahoo were analysed …

The pharmaceutical industry plays an increasingly dominant role in healthcare, raising
concerns about “conflicts of interest”(COI) on the part of the medical professionals who …

Health-related industries use a variety of methods to influence health news, including the
formation and maintenance of direct relationships with journalists. These interactions have …

O medicamento tem sido o principal recurso terapêutico da medicina ocidental, que evoluiu
materialmente no último século. O objetivo deste artigo é compreender o uso de …