Archive for 02/02/2010

GSK makes structures of potential antimalarials freely available

GlaxoSmithKline has announced that it will make the chemical structures of 13 500 compounds with potential antimalarial activity freely available on scientific websites to encourage research into new drugs for malaria.

For full article, http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/jan25_2/c465.

Ghostwriting at Elite Academic Medical Centers in the United States

 This study looks at the 50 top medical centres in the US and their policies on ghostwriting. The authors found that only 26% of institutions have policy on ghostwriting.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000230

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