{"id":3009,"date":"2009-02-08T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/08\/drugmakers-push-boosts-murky-ailment\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T14:48:16","slug":"drugmakers-push-boosts-murky-ailment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/02\/08\/drugmakers-push-boosts-murky-ailment\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugmakers&#8217; push boosts &#8216;murky&#8217; ailment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/08\/AR2009020801008.html?hpid=sec-health\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"090216_pfiz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/090216_pfiz.jpg\" title=\"090216_pfiz.jpg\" alt=\"090216_pfiz.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions _ including whether it&#8217;s a real disease at all. Key components of the industry-funded buzz over the pain-and-fatigue ailment fibromyalgia are grants _ more than $6 million donated by drugmakers Eli Lilly and Pfizer in the first three quarters of 2008 _ to nonprofit groups for medical conferences and educational campaigns, an Associated Press analysis found. Image source: washingtonpost.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/08\/AR2009020801008.html?hpid=sec-health\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>USA<span lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Company: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Eli Lilly, Pfizer | <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/08\/AR2009020801008.html?hpid=sec-health\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions _ including whether it&#8217;s a real disease at all. Key components of the industry-funded buzz over the pain-and-fatigue ailment fibromyalgia are grants _ more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}