These guidelines were published in the BMJ in 2009.4 Your readers may be most interested in the responsibilities of sponsors and authors (extract below).

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Nor, say the authors, are they necessarily held back by family responsibilities: nearly two in five of those aged 40 or over had no children.

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Authors, as is right and proper, have the most responsibilities when it comes to a manuscript.

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The authors of the paper, the peer-review process at Health Affairs and the media all failed in their responsibilities to the public.

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