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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Labour MP backs drug in report financed by its manufacturer

Here is another example of the workings of drug companies.

In the Sunday Telegraph of August 13, 2006, is the following report:

Labour MP backs drug in report financed by its manufacturer

which is headed

Labour MP backs drug in report financed by its manufacturer
Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent

(Filed: 13/08/2006)

Extract:

"A Labour MP has been criticised for promoting a prescription-only medicine in a pamphlet funded by the drug's manufacturer.

Medical ethics campaigners questioned the £5,000 deal involving John Mann, the MP for Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire, and the pharmaceuticals giant Schering-Plough.

They also condemned the Fabian Society, the Labour-affiliated think-tank which published the pamphlet and secured the sponsorship."