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3 stories tagged "pharma-funding"
Investigations
The Sixteen Drug Companies Funding Britain's Biggest Health Study Can Mine Data Its Own Scientists Say Skews Rich and Healthy
Our Future Health signed up 1.9 million volunteers on £354 million of public money and £180 million from 16 drug companies. Its own scientists now warn the sample skews wealthy and healthy, and cannot yet say how common any disease actually is.
InvestigationsGSK Bankrolled the Study That Turned Its Shingles Vaccine Into a Dementia Headline
The academics who best isolated a shingles-vaccine effect on dementia used a natural experiment and no industry money. The study behind this month's headlines used a claims database and GlaxoSmithKline's checkbook.
Metabolic & WeightThe Prescription Vitamin D Added to Protect Failing Kidneys Made Them Decline Four Times Faster
Chasing a parathyroid-hormone target, doctors added active vitamin D to a kidney drug. The hormone dropped 35 percent, and the kidneys declined four times faster.