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DRUG RESEARCH MONEY

Since the U.S. government is spending less and less on drug research, critics charge, that pharmaceutical companies may be putting financial and legal pressure on doctors and researchers, who accept money from pharmaceutical companies to study the drugs, to find the drugs being studied to be safe and effective! If a researcher decides that the companys drug may not be completely safe and effective and chooses to publish these discouraging results, the drug company may pressure the researcher to change or write his article in a certain way. If he does not, the drug company may possibly eventually decide to sue the researcher in court and/or take away future research money from this particular researcher.

Consequently, researchers may now become somewhat reluctant to publish results that are not in favor of the pharmaceutical companys drugs being studied. Unfortunately, if a researcher does NOT let the medical community know that certain drugs being studied may possibly be harmful or come with potential risky side effects, people everywhere may likely continue to take the exact same questionable drug as part of other drug studies being conducted elsewhere!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CBS-TV NEWS 2/20/01

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