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Big Pharma (The Play)
A nyone who has experienced the assault of the pharmaceutical industry's marketing campaigns would appreciate Jennifer Berry's one-person play Big Pharma: The Rise of the Anti-Depressant Drug Industry and the Loss of a Generation. Since the mid-1990s, spending on drug promotion has grown steadily, reaching $21 billion in 2002. Berry explores the fallout of this expanded marketing blitz through ...
متن کاملThe influence of big pharma.
Areport published last week on “the influence of the pharmaceutical industry” describes a strong United Kingdom pharmaceutical industry, whose net exports are worth over £3bn ($5.6bn; €4.3bn) annually. The industry’s declared goal is “to bring patients life-enhancing medicines,” a goal “not only necessary but noble.” The House of Commons health committee examined the means used to achieve this ...
متن کاملBypassing big pharma.
There have been many resounding victories in the war against coronary artery disease. Among those are antiarrhythmic drugs, pacemakers, coronary bypass surgery, coronary angioplasty, reperfusion therapy, and statins. But the one goal that has continuously eluded us has been the clinical availability of an effective cardioprotective agent. Although reperfusion therapy has partially achieved the ...
متن کاملBig pharma and the UK Government.
15 Wellcome Trust. Death of a serviceman: will a study of a 50-year old death help us safeguard medical ethics in these troubled times? 18 Page WF. Long-term health effects of exposures to sarin and other anticholinesterase chemical warfare agents. Elevated frequency of sister chromatid exchanges of lymphocytes in sarin-exposed victims of the Tokyo disaster 3 years after the event. 21 Abou-Doni...
متن کاملTaking on Big Pharma and the FDA
Our American system of drug regulation is heavily frontloaded. The FDA spends a lot of time and energy (though not always enough) evaluating a proposed drug's safety and efficacy before approving it. But this initial evaluation is inherently constrained by the limited data available from clinical trials conducted before the product enters the marketplace. Ultimately, the FDA makes a judgment ba...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Milbank Quarterly
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0887-378X
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12171