The Boston Globe reports that "A fierce, behind-the-scenes battle over how much influence drug companies exert on doctors is raising the blood pressure at the American Society of Hypertension."
The story continues: "The society's cofounder and longtime editor of the prestigious American Journal of Hypertension, Dr. John H. Laragh, has accused 'academic physician/businessmen' who accept industry speaking and consulting fees of improperly coloring the group's activities." Laragh wrote an e-mail message to physicians in the 3,000 member society that said, ''The lines separating marketing from education have been fractured."
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