Indeed, a petition is now circulating from a group calling itself the Public Library of Science, urging scientists to boycott any publisher that will not relinquish the rights to published bio-medical papers after six months.
They can also influence the clinical practices of their peers by speaking at medical conferences or authoring research papers in medical journals.
Dr Edwards, who was medical officer for BAS at the time it was shot two years ago, had planned to spend his time writing scientific research papers for medical journals.
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One moat is its 65 million square feet of warehouse space, where it stores old legal files, aging HR records, medical files and other business papers not currently in use for 97% of Fortune 1000 companies.
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The ban extends from instances where a co-author is named to those where a medical education company was enlisted to help buff papers into shape.
According to Thomson Scientific, Topol is one of the ten most cited medical researchers of the past decade, with his papers cited 22, 829 times between 1995 and 2005.
Medical journals frequently fail to perform basic checks on the papers they print, so all sorts of sharp practice goes uncorrected.
As we go to press, the company has plans to release technical papers detailing Nexium's efficacy to the medical profession at the end of May.
The medical leap forward is well documented, in 800 academic papers.
Indeed, of the eleven authors listed on the five papers Austin cites, not one even went to medical school, as far as I can tell.
He compares conducting studies of every camera-equipped intersection in a region to doctors conducting individual research papers on each patient rather than relying on published medical studies.
Even if Larry Altman avoided residency, where papers are discussed even more, he would have had to learn how to read scientific papers as a pre-med and as a medical student.
The first problem, given that the controversy at issue is medical outcomes for Medicaid beneficiaries, is that each of these papers is authored by economists, and published in a journal of economics.
AstraZeneca's spokesperson says that while it does not support ghostwriting of papers, it does believe that it's proper for doctors to enlist medical writers to help them with their manuscripts.
Instead of appearing first in a medical journal where results are carefully vetted by anonymous outside experts, as is the tradition for scientific papers, the researchers involved organized a press conference that was funded by the company.
Medical literature has shown problems like birth defects and premature deaths if mothers use cocaine, Hood argued in court papers.
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Also interesting is her proposed solution: Logdberg suggests that medical writers are valuable, and that they should be hired by academic centers to help in the preparation of papers.
But medical journals rely more on the good faith of researchers and something called peer review, outside researchers who anonymously review papers.
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