Alzheimer’s News From Florida - 4/16/08
Ghostwriters for medical research criticized, reforms urged
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Associated Press)
Merck hired writters to draft studies for its painkiller Vioxx and paid other scientists to take credit for them. Some of these reports included Alzheimer’s patients who died, and some think that those deaths were downplayed.
Most Early-Onset Dementia Not Alzheimer’s
WWSB-TV ABC (Sarasota)
Mayo Clinic neurologist Dr. Brendan J. Kelley states that new research indicates that early-onset dementia typically is not related to Alzheimer’s disease.
