Guidelines

One of the preconceived ideas medical folk have is that their guideline creators are objective and honorable women and men. One of the preconceived ideas that our guideline creators have is that they are honorable men and women.

In 2002 JAMA published a study that found that four out of five experts who participate in the formulation of guidelines have on average 10 money related arrangements with drug companies. 59% of the experts had deals going with the companies whose drugs were dealt with in the guidelines they were authoring.

I got this bit of information out of OverdosedAmerica.

With regards to statin guidelines little old New Zealand has been less hoodwinked than the rest of the world according to some Canadian researchers.