From Dr. Sahelian: <www.raysahelian.com>
Can we really trust "official" medical recommendations and guidelines?
Unfortunately we live in a world where profit often comes before truth or honesty. New reviews suggest a majority of panel members who gather to write clinical practice guidelines have conflicts of interest. In other words they may be recommending medications or procedures that may benefit the pharmaceutical companies or lab/testing/imaging related companies with whom they have some sort of association. In general only 16% of panel members from government-sponsored guidelines such as the USPSTF were found to have conflicts, versus 69% of non-governmental entities such as the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. Oct. 11, 2011, BMJ, online.
Gordon
