{"id":750,"date":"2008-08-19T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2008-08-19T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:19:00","slug":"report-says-merck-vioxx-study-aimed-at-marketing-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Report Says Merck Vioxx Study Aimed at Marketing  &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121910517536051499.html?mod=2_1566_topbox\">Free Preview Report Says Merck Vioxx Study Aimed at Marketing &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>: [Subscription required for full access]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 1999 clinical study that Merck &amp; Co. said was done to test side effects of the painkiller Vioxx was, in fact, conducted primarily to support a marketing campaign before the drug&#8217;s launch, according to a study being published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said their findings, based on internal Merck records disclosed during litigation, are among the first to document what many scientists suspect is a wider industry practice of using studies masquerading as clinical science to bolster marketing plans. Such behavior would raise ethical and scientific questions, from whether study participants were unknowingly &#8212; and needlessly &#8212; put in harm&#8217;s way, &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/links.mkt211.com\/servlet\/MailView?ms=MjEyNDIwMAS2&amp;r=NTcxOTYwMDg4S0&amp;j=OTc1NjcwMTIS1&amp;mt=1&amp;rt=0\">More details from AMA Morning Rounds is here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Preview Report Says Merck Vioxx Study Aimed at Marketing &#8211; WSJ.com: [Subscription required for full access] &#8220;A 1999 clinical study that Merck &amp; Co. said was done to test &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Report Says Merck Vioxx Study Aimed at Marketing  &#8211; WSJ.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmaceutical-industry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}