excerpts – Nexus Global News report
A medical doctor and former member of Pfizer Inc.’s speakers bureau accused last year of perpetrating one of the biggest research frauds in medical history, was charged in a federal court in Boston with falsifying medical research studies.
The Doctor faces up to 10 years in prison and a US $250,000 fine. He was accused of accepting a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to research the effectiveness of pain medication Celebrex for a 2005 study in which no patients were actually enrolled. Prosecutors allege the doctor made up the data, which he subsequently had published in the medical journal Anesthesia & Analgesia.
This journal had to retract 10 papers written by his Doctor, and medical experts at the time said that at least 21 journal articles by this anaethesiologist appeared to be fabricated.
(source: TheDay.com 15 January 2010.)