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PharmAware Info Sheets
General Big Pharma Info including information about how drugs are made, profits margins and controversies surrounding the industry ABPI: the brains behind BigPharma?
with information about the close relationship between ABPI and UK
government and how they have managed to influence British policy Marketing of drugs to doctors by drug reps, free gifts, advertisements in the medical press and sponsoring of medical education. The influence of drug companies on research including control of research agenda and outcomes, ghost-writing, me-too drugs and neglected tropical diseases. Access to essential medicines including patent laws and intellectual property laws (TRIPS) Ethics of research in developing countries including information about the recent BBC documentary "dark side of drug trials" What can be done - some possible solutions
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Selling Sickness, BBC documentary, 19/11/05 The Dark Side of Drug Trials, BBC documentary, 27/04/06 Dying for Drugs, Channel 4 documentary If you come across any other resources you feel may be useful for members, please let us know at webmaster@pharmaware.co.uk Videos
Other
Disease Mongering
Research in the UK
All change for funding of medical research in the UK, BMJ, 29/4/06
How should we rate research? BMJ, 29/4/06
Newspaper articles
The fool's gold that heals, 14/1//06, The Guardian
Pfizer broke law with 1996 Nigeria drug test: paper, 8/5/06, Reuters.
Fact Sheets
Books
"The Truth About the Drug Companies" by Marcia Angell. New York: Random House, 2004. Revised and updated in 2005. The ‘Fast Food Nation’ of the pharmaceutical industry!
"Big Pharma" by Jacky Law. Constable, 2006.
Strong Medicines by Arthur Hailey
Bitter Pills, Oxfam
Roche versus Adams
"On
the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your
Health," by Jerome P. Kassirer. Oxford University Press, 2005
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Last updated: 3/2/2007