Surgeons Receive Millions from Big Pharma to Promote Medical Devices in Journals

Medical professionals commonly write articles for popular medical journals that endorse specific drugs or medical devices. But a new study has found that most fail to disclose the fact that they are receiving direct compensation from Big Pharma for such endorsements, which is often to the tune of millions of dollars.

The report, which appears in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, found that roughly 50 percent of surgeons who received more than $1 million from orthopedic medical device manufacturers did not disclose this information in their published journal articles. And the aggregate total of such payments amounted to $248 million in 2007.'

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