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Celia Garner [log in to unmask]
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Those about to enter  2nd year should pay particular
attention as you will be lectured by this man and
receive the mentioned book distributed by
pharmaceutical companies...

Check it out!
  Celia

> Tuesday, June 10, 2003
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> Drug Company's Payments to Adjunct Prompt Review at
> U. of Minnesota
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> By KATHERINE S. MANGAN
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> The University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center
> is reviewing the 
> personnel files of its adjunct professors after
> learning that a drug 
> company had paid a pharmacy adjunct nearly $50,000
> to promote a drug for 
> epilepsy.
> 
> The New York Times reported that the company,
> Warner-Lambert, paid Ilo E. 
> Leppik a total of $49,250 from 1994 to 1997 to speak
> on behalf of the drug, 
> Neurontin. The article also said that Warner-Lambert
> had paid a publisher 
> $303,764 to print Dr. Leppik's epilepsy textbook,
> which is distributed free 
> to medical students at Minnesota.
> 
> Dr. Leppik, whose adjunct teaching and research
> position at Minnesota is 
> unpaid, was named in a whistle-blower lawsuit being
> heard in federal 
> district court in Boston. He has an unlisted
> telephone number and could not 
> be reached for comment. Warner-Lambert officials
> also could not be reached.
> 
> The Times reported that Warner-Lambert had paid
> dozens of doctors tens of 
> thousands of dollars each to tell other physicians
> how Neurontin could be 
> used for conditions other than epilepsy, even though
> the U.S. Food and Drug 
> Administration has not approved it for other uses.
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> Marilyn K. Speedie, dean of Minnesota's College of
> Pharmacy, said Dr. 
> Leppik had lectured about the drug's use for
> epilepsy alone. "Dr. Leppik 
> lectures on drugs for epilepsy, and he gets paid for
> that -- that's normal 
> external activity," she said. However, she said that
> the case had raised 
> questions about how potential conflicts of interest
> are reported to the 
> university. Adjunct professors are not required to
> submit annual forms that 
> list their outside sources of income, the way
> full-time faculty members 
> are, and some university officials believe that
> should change.
> 
> The controversy comes at a time when medical schools
> across the country, 
> including Harvard Medical School, are reviewing
> their conflict-of-interest 
> policies to ensure that research is objective and
> accurate without turning 
> away badly needed industry money.
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> Copyright © 2003 by The Chronicle of Higher
> Education
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