One study's authors promptly pulled a manuscript from JAMA and submitted it to another journal, which published it without independent review, JAMA reports. Last year editors of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) alleged that information about the heart attack risk caused by the painkiller Vioxx was inappropriately excluded from a study the journal published in 2000. The change incensed former NEJM Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer, author of the 2005 book On the Take, an inside ...

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