CONCLUSION:

To serve its interests, the industry masterfully influences evidence base production, evidence synthesis, understanding of harms issues, cost-effectiveness evaluations, clinical practice guidelines and healthcare professional education and also exerts direct influences on professional decisions and health consumers. There is an urgent need for regulation and other action towards redefining the mission of medicine towards a more objective and patient-, population- and society-benefit direction that is free from conflict of interests.

© 2013 Stichting European Society for Clinical Investigation Journal Foundation. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

–Undue industry influences that distort healthcare research, strategy, expenditure and practice: a review

Old problem… 1980 journal article, “The new medical-industrial complex”: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7412851