How much of the medical literature is shaped behind the scenes by drug companies? Drug companies control or shape multiple steps in the research, analysis, writing, and publication of a large ...

Matthew Sacchet, Ph.D., Director of the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is senior author of a paper in ...

Impact of Health-Related Quality of Life and Prediagnosis Risk of Major Depressive Disorder on Treatment Choice for Stage I Lung Cancer We conducted literature searches in PubMed and retrieved paper ...

A new editorial concludes that in the two years since extensive ghostwriting by pharmaceutical giant Wyeth to promote its hormone drug Prempro was exposed through litigation intervention, medical ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nearly 75 percent of physicians change their clinical practices quarterly or monthly based on reading medical literature, according to a Doximity survey conducted last ...

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power ...

I have had several articles published during my time spent fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. Reading readers' comments on these articles has always been a source of motivation for us doctors. There was ...

In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote to the New York Sun to ask, "Is there a Santa Claus?" [1] Virginia's father, Dr. Phillip O'Hanlon, suggested that course of action because "if you see ...

While the rationale for embracing the hard sciences before starting a science-based career is obvious, the importance of building a solid foundation in the humanities may be less apparent to ...

Over the years, pharmacovigilance (PV) processes have relied on PV professionals manually sifting through large volumes of data to identify, assess, and report Adverse Event (AE) information. However, ...