Secret Pharma Payments To Vermont Doctors Disclosed

Payments by drugmakers to Vermont docs between July 2002 and June 2004 totaled more than $4.9 million, much more than the $2.7 million that was previously reported by Public Citizen in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in March 2007, the advocacy group now says. The payment details were hidden by 21 drugmakers that designated the data as trade secrets, according to Public Citizen, which says it obtained the data through litigation and released an updated analysis, including the newly obtained data. The new material was published in a letter today in JAMA, and is a follow-up to Public Citizen’s testimony last year before the Senate Committee on Aging.
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