During Healy's testimony, the family's lead attorney from Houston, Sean Tracey, introduced the actual manuscript by STI. "This is an article that is going to go to a journal," Healy said. "It has been authored by Ms. Laden, contrary to what appears there."
The names Zachary Stowe and Jeffrey Newport appeared on the authorship line. Healy noted that Draft 4 stated: "Final article cover page to be removed."
"The cover page will be removed," he explained, "because the journal will treat the article quite differently if they think that the true author is not on the authorship line."
Healy said the paper was an example of ghostwriting. "It is going to go to a journal called Psychopharmacology Bulletin," he testified. "And in this particular issue of the journal where this paper later comes out, every paper in that issue of the journal has to do with Paxil."
The jury was then shown the actual article that was published and it was the exact same article but without Laden's name on it.
Healy testified that Stowe runs the women's mental health program at Emory University and publishes on SSRIs and women's health issues, with publications favorable to Paxil, and also gives seminars and talks for other doctors which outline "how it can be a good thing to treat women of childbearing years with Paxil."
He was not allowed to tell the jury how much Glaxo had paid Stowe over the last year or two, which was revealed by an investigation led by Iowa Senator, Charles Grassley, as the ranking Republican on the US Senate Finance Committee. The amount Stowe got paid "is not public knowledge where you can show me a document that says it," the judge said.
However, Stowe's Glaxo earnings are most certainly public knowledge. A google search in December 2009, with the following three key words in quotes, "Stowe" "GSK" "paid," brought up 15,800 hits.
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