Em Portugal temos actualmente o escândalo das farmacêuticas e o aliciamento dos médicos, na pessoa dos delegados de propaganda médica (para mim, o facto de se chamar «propaganda» nunca augurou nada de bom.
In the United Kingdom, and according to The Observer, it gets more sophisticated: they hire a figure called ghostwriter (already present in famous people's so-called autobiographies) to pen serious articles later signed by prestigious medical staff.