ISMPP Speaks Up
ISMPP remains committed to its mission of education and advocacy, including ensuring the fair representation of our profession in both the scientific literature and popular media.
In an effort to clarify and/or expand upon points made in the public domain, our organization develops communications that support the ISMPP position on good professional ethics and transparency in medical publishing. Please see below for a summary of some recent ISMPP communications.
Posted December 12, 2011
In response to BMJ 2011;343:d7860, "Ghosts in the Machine"
Posted November 10, 2011
In response to BMJ 2011;343:bmj.d6128, "Honorary and ghost authorship in high impact biomedical journals: a cross sectional survey"
Posted June 28, 2011
In response to “How Scientific Literature Has Become Part of Big Pharma's Marketing Machine and How Being Nice Hurts Canada: 5 Questions with Ghostwriting Expert Trudo Lemmens” by Paul Thacker Wednesday, June 22, 2011 (Please scroll down to the end of the article to read ISMPP’s response)
Posted June 6, 2011
In response to How drug companies' PR tactics skew the presentation of medical research posted by Elliot Ross Friday 20 May 2011 14.14 BST guardian.co.uk
ISMPP's response
Posted May 24, 2011
In response to BMJ 2011; 342:d2925, “Only full access to trial data will show signs of ghostwriting, meeting hears”
ISMPP supports transparency in all aspects of clinical trial reporting
ISMPP in the News
The following is a collection of articles that feature ISMPP or the Society's leaders.
April 2011: ISMPP and advocacy for the medical publication profession
Click here to view an Editorial by Jackie Marchington on behalf of the ISMPP Issues and Actions Committee that reviews ISMPP's advocacy initiatives. The Editorial was published in an April 2011 Supplement to CMRO.
September 2010: ISMPP Leaders Comment on Relevance of Ghostwriting report
The October issue of Medical Marketing & Media presents a response by Julia Ralston, ISMPP's President, and Rob Matheis, ISMPP's President Elect, to the question: "Is [Senator Grassley's] ghostwriting report still relevant?" They are joined by Jay Magrann, publisher of CMRO and an author of the MPIP Authors' Submission Tool Kit, and the senator himself. Click here.
August 2010: MPIP Initiative Published in CMRO
The Medical Publishing Insights and Practices Initiative (MPIP) toolkit, first presented at the 6th annual meeting of ISMPP, appeared in August issue of Current Medical Research & Opinion (CMRO). The guidelines, entitled Authors Submission Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Getting Your Research Published, is currently available to download on CMRO's website.
