Author: Alex May
Position: NIBHI Research Fellow
Institution: University of Manchester
E-mail: alex.may@manchester.ac.uk
Submitted Date: May 12, 2006
Published Date: May 25, 2006
This comment was originally posted as a “Reader Response” on the publication date indicated above. All Reader Responses are now available as comments.
The recommendations here are clear and appropriate: medical journals should not accept advertisements from drug companies; instead, they should accept them for luxury goods.
So, despite the much-heralded medicine-basic research convergence, there is still a gulf between physicians and scientists (like me) - being able to afford luxury goods.