But that's far from universal, said Dr. Thomas Perls, an expert on aging at Boston University and director of the New England Centenarians Study.
Marcia Angell, a lecturer at Harvard University, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine and author of The Truth About Drug Companies, wrote in an e-mail that ghostwriting practices are "evidently very common" in medicine.
Dr. Mark Hlatky, a professor of health policy and cardiology at Stanford University, reviewed the study for The New England Journal of Medicine.
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"There are clinically important increases in the risk of cancer-related death that are not ruled out by this data, " writes Thomas Fleming of the University of Washington in an editorial published on the Web site of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The bottom five included Whittier College (17%), University of the District of Columbia (21%), Golden Gate University (22%), Thomas Jefferson School of Law (27%) and Western New England University (30%).
Thomas Fleming, a statistician at the University of Washington, has argued in the New England Journal that though this is true, analyzing the data in that way doesn't quell all concerns that Vytorin might somehow increase the rate of cancer death.
In a separate New England Journal editorial, University of Washington epidemiologist Bruce Psaty and Wake Forest University's Curt Furberg are also harshly critical of Pfizer for not publicizing details until just a few weeks ago of another study that found hints of cardiovascular problems with Celebrex in 2000.
Gregg W. Stone, a professor of medicine at Columbia University and the author of an analysis of Boston Scientific's stent published in the New England Journal, says that is worried that doctors have pulled back too much from using drug coated stents, in even off-label uses.
Bristol Rovers Football Club needs to sell the ground to fund a new stadium at the University of the West of England campus in Stoke Gifford.
Simon Conway-Morris, a palaeontologist at Cambridge University, in England, is the champion of a new interpretation of evolution one that challenges the view that it is largely governed by the accident of circumstances.
Bristol Rovers has reached a deal with University of the West of England (UWE) and Sainsbury's so it can build a new stadium on university ground.
In a paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers and attorneys from Harvard University argue that the health and safety gains of a smoking ban in housing projects would far outweigh the losses, which some say would include the privacy rights of smokers.
In an editorial in the New England Journal, two other veterans of the Vioxx controversy--Bruce Psaty of the University of Washington and Curt Furberg of Wake Forest University--write that there is no clear reason to prescribe Avandia at all now.
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