[Pharm-policy] MELODY PETERSEN: Pushing Pills With Piles of Money

[James Love]

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/05/business/05DRUG.html                                                    

October 5, 2000

         Pushing Pills With Piles of Money

         By MELODY PETERSEN

             efore the Olympic Games
             opened in Sydney last month,
             the aging gold medalists Bruce
         Jenner, Dorothy Hamill and Bart
         Conner were talking more about
         their arthritis than the coming
         events.

         There's a good reason. All three
         athletes are being paid by either
         Merck or Pharmacia to appear on
         talk shows and speak to groups
         about the new prescription pain
         relievers that they are taking for
         their sore joints.

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