This is because increased weighting of physician testimony allows the increased weight of subjective measures of pain and injury which treating physicians may testify to but government sponsored doctors (such as consulting examiner or medical advisor) may be unable to observe.
In a statement, Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association BMAA), which represents doctors, said: "Whilst we agree that GSK should not directly sponsor doctors going to meetings, we are satisfied that they will continue to financially support education.
In a classic drug trial, run and financed by the producer of the drug (the sponsor), doctors interacting with patients (the trial investigators) describe in case report forms those adverse events occurring in each patient, and the sponsor then codes them and enters them in clinical safety databases.
Longtime fans suspect, and with good reason, that their grass-roots sport and homegrown heroes are being overshadowed by corporate carpetbaggers, pretty-boy drivers and sponsors' spin doctors.
Ms. Myhr's study was one of two issued here at a conference on African drug prices sponsored by Doctors Without Borders and other groups pressing drug companies to cut prices.
Correction: February 20 , 2002 Wednesday A picture caption with the Red Hook Journal article on Feb. 3, about preparations at Showman Fabricators in Brooklyn for a mobile exhibition sponsored by Doctors Without Borders, misidentified the worker who was hanging photographs.
"It's really a disease of poverty," said Françoise Begaux, who worked with villagers for five years as part of a research project sponsored by Doctors Without Borders, and who now works for another aid group, Terma Foundation.
Currently more than 50 UNICEF sponsored two-doctor mobile medical teams are working among the most affected communities in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh – vaccinating children against measles and conducting active health surveillance.
Many doctors stood up to denounce the resolution in passionate speeches -- even after its sponsor, Dr. J. Chris Hawk, asked that it be withdrawn.
But getting drugs prescribed for unapproved uses can increase a drug's sales, so companies often skirt the rules by sponsoring seminars where doctors are paid to make presentations promoting their drugs, including the "off label" uses.
