NEJM Spiked Story Exposing NKF

We're take a break from our holiday break (I'm still reading the papers, of course; my thirst for a daily fix remains as strong today as when I took up the habit 45 years ago when I was 11 and began my first paper route) to point out an interesting story in today's Wall Street Journal. David Armstrong, who is turning the corporate takeover of medicine into an interesting beat, reports that the New England Journal of Medicine had originally commissioned Robert Steinbrook's story exposing Amgen's control of the National Kidney Foundation guidelines on anemia management.

You can see the Journal story here.

You can see my coverage of this story in real time (as the original stories appeared in NEJM and the Lancet, where Steinbrook's story eventually appeared, here, here, here and here.

Hope everyone is having a happy holidays. Back to the papers.