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National Vaccine Information Center NVIC
NVIC Says BMJ Review Demonstrates Medical Journal Bias Toward Pharma-Sponsored Influenza Vaccine Studies
February 25th, 2009
In a review of influenza vaccine studies published in the British Medical Journal Tom Jefferson, M.D., Ph.D. (Cochrane Field, Rome, Italy) and colleagues found that published influenza vaccine studies sponsored by industry are treated more favorably by medical journals even when the studies are of poor quality. “This independent Cochrane review confirms that drug companies marketing vaccines have undue influence on what gets published in medical journals about vaccine safety and effectiveness,” said Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit vaccine safety watchdog group that earlier this week issued a new report on Gardasil vaccine...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-02-25)
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