Medical journals hit back at the drug companies.

“Leading medical journals have formed an alliance to block publication of the results of drug trials that they believe have been distorted by pressure from pharmaceutical companies.

From next month, the Lancet, the British Medical Journal and 25 other specialist magazines will demand that authors give written guarantees that their scientific research was independent.

The editors of the journals are said to have evidence that drug manufacturers are using sponsorship to persuade scientists and doctors to write favourably about their products. The agreement follows several recent cases involving allegations that drug companies tried to withhold research results or present them in a biased manner.” Telegraph UK