"Merck Wrote Drug Studies for Doctors" (Business Day, April 16) highlighted several issues in the Journal of the American Medical Association articles about the Vioxx case, including the role of medical writers in developing articles about medical research.
To this end, PLOS is developing article-level metrics that enable the scientific community itself to confer on a research contribution its credibility, relevance, and importance, independent of the journal in which it is published.
… A great deal of work will go into developing articles only to have many of them rejected.
The project also had school clubs compete, with trophies given for exemplary malaria control activities, including singing songs, participating in drama, citing poetry, and developing articles about mosquitoes.
We developed article review forms that were pilot tested and revised before use.
He helped develop articles and publications on child health services.
"Public Relations Campaign for Research Office at E.P.A. May Include Ghostwritten Articles," your July 18 news article about the use of writers who help government scientists develop articles about technical subjects for nontechnical audiences, does not fully explain why these writers are needed.
Under potential legislation, pharma patents will expire if the organization doesn't develop "articles" with them.
SS assisted in developing the article based on the technical report and provided detailed editorial assistance.
MG was a Post-Doctoral Fellow, and EB a Ph.D. student with the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, while developing this article.
The research group "Global Health: Ethics, Economics and Culture" at the University of Bergen provided very useful comments in structuring and developing the article.
