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Elan and Wyeth Had Ties to Study's Authors

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An Alzheimer's disease research paper published last year in a prestigious medical journal failed to disclose the financial ties one of the co-authors had to Elan (ELN Quote) and Wyeth (WYE Quote) as a paid consultant to the drugmakers.

The paper in the September 2007 Archives of Neurology, a journal published by the American Medical Association, describes the use of a new test -- the neuropsychological test battery (NTB) -- to measure the memory and mental status of patients with Alzheimer's disease. ...

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