A LITIGIOUS LOOK AT GLAXOSMITHKLINE AND ITS METHODS

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This is a fine, in-depth write-up of the GlaxoSmithKline scandal.  A couple of University of Texas physicians, Southwestern Medical Center President Daniel Podolsky and the University of Texas Medical Branch's Karen Wagner, get honorable and not-so-honorable mention respectively in the story.  Please see "Glaxo Birth Defect Litigation Reveals Paxil Promoters on Speed Dial." An excerpt:

Healy “is going to explain to you how GSK corrupted the medical literature,” he said, “how they used their money and influence to have doctors that they paid put out literature into the world so doctors ... could read literature that looked like literature, looked like science, smelled like science, appeared to be science, from very important people, people that were on boards, people that were professors, people that published hundreds of articles.”

Healy is going to explain to you that what they didn't tell people ... “is, we are paying these doctors to do all these things,” Tracey told the jury.

“There is a book, it looks like a telephone book,” he said, “of names of doctors, influential doctors, on their payroll, the names of these doctors you will see on this literature that looks and smells like science.”

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