August 1, 2006 at 10:11:52

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JAMA scandal and Ketek approval raise questions about big pharma's influence

By Martha Rosenberg (about the author)     Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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In July, Grassley asked the Health and Human Services Department to probe whether the FDA's own Dr. Brian Harvey conspired against Graham by providing Merck details about his upcoming Vioxx presentation to better help them refute it says the Associated Press.

The FDA also blocked publication of Graham's Vioxx paper in the Lancet soon after his congressional testimony and termed his work "junk science."

"It is no secret that Dr. Graham was and is a critic of the FDA," Grassley wrote Inspector General Daniel Levinson. "However, that does not mean the FDA should scheme with drug sponsors to discredit its own employees."

Maybe they thought the relationship was irrelevant.

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