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Drug firms banished from medical talks

Thereâ??s a good way to figure out when a drug company plans to introduce a new product. When pharmaceutical company scientists show up at medical meetings to give talks about diseases that most people never have heard of – disorders such as female sexual dysfunction or cardio metabolic syndrome – it is likely that a new drug is coming, said James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.