UM professor accused of submitting ghostwritten textbook [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Friday, 12.03.10
UM professor accused of submitting ghostwritten textbook

A UM psychiatry professor is accused of having a textbook with his name on it ghostwritten by a firm paid for by a drug manufacturer.
BY JOHN DORSCHNER
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A national watchdog group has accused a University of Miami psychiatrist, Charles Nemeroff, of listing himself as a co-author of a textbook that was ghostwritten by a writing company and paid for by a major drug maker.

The Washington-based Project on Government Oversight has written a letter to the National Institutes of Health complaining about three publications, including Nemeroff's, in which a marketing firm, Scientific Therapeutics Information, performed ghostwriting about drug benefits that was paid for by a company now known as GlaxoSmithKline.

Nemeroff and the book's publisher, the American Psychiatric Association, emphatically denied the charge.

The oversight group says the issue is huge because of concerns that drug makers may exert undue influence in getting the public to use certain brands -- and perhaps raising the nation's healthcare costs in the process.



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