Re: NEJM reviewer admitts to leaking report on Avandia

People, if we casncalltghem yhay are trading in our lives.

We are just a herd of cattle to make profit from.

The medical profession acheiverd it's high ststus by
rejecting this mode.

Some day we will deal with those that act to adversly
Affect peoples lives and health.

It s that $$$$$imple.


On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:20:11 -0800 (PST), bigvince
<Vince.Miraglia@gmail.com> wrote:

>U.S. researcher admits to leaking drug data
>Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:02pm ET
>
>By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
>
>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Texas researcher admitted he had leaked a
>sensitive and controversial report about the heart risks of diabetes
>drug Avandia to its maker, GlaxoSmithKline, days before the report was
>due to be released, the journal Nature reported on Wednesday .
>
>Steven Haffner of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San
>Antonio admitted he tipped off the company, and a member of the U.S.
>Congress quickly launched an investigation.
>
>"Why I sent it is a mystery," Haffner is quoted by Nature as saying.
>
>
>"I don't really understand it. I wasn't feeling well. It was bad
>judgment.".............
>
>...........Haffner was one of those asked by the journal to "peer-
>review" the paper.
>
>....These reviewers promise to keep the research confidential until it
>is published.
>
>Nature said Haffner faxed a copy of the study 17 days before it was
>published to Alexander Cobitz, a Glaxo employee he knew from working
>on an earlier clinical trial of the drug.......
>
>...GSK representatives informed the Committee last summer that a peer
>reviewer leaked the study to them weeks before it was published,"
>Grassley wrote in a letter to the company.
>
>
>"GSK later acknowledged to the Committee that the peer reviewer was
>Dr. Haffner," he added.
>
>"According to documents filed at the FDA, GSK has paid Dr. Haffner
>around $75,000 in consulting fees and speaking honoraria since 1999.
>Dr. Haffner told Committee investigators that no one at GSK asked him
>to send them this study about Avandia," Grassley added.....
>
>http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...1-ArticlePage1
>
>Thanks Vince