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FDA patient, consumer reps often tied to pharma-funded groups
Patient and consumer representatives advising U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expert panels might actually be a Trojan horse for the pharmaceutical industry, a new study says.
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Patient and consumer representatives advising U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expert panels might actually be a Trojan horse for the pharmaceutical industry, a new study says. These supposedly average-Joe representatives often have ties to advocacy organizations funded by drugmakers, researchers recently reported in the journal Health Affairs Scholar .
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