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Senator Wants Big Pharma, Docs To Stop Medical Ghostwriting

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) has indicated that he is running out of patience with the practice of doctors at some of the nation's top medical schools attaching their names to scientific papers that have been drafted by ghostwriters working for pharmaceutical companies, Natasha Singer reports. In a letter last week, he asked the National Institutes of Health to crack down on the practice.

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