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Bad pharma :

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0865478007 (hbk.)

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9780865478008 (hbk.)

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9780865478060

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Title Proper

Bad pharma :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ben Goldacre

Edition Statement

1st American ed

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Faber and Faber,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 426 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Missing data -- Where do new drugs come from? -- Bad regulators -- Bad trials -- Bigger, simpler trials -- Marketing -- Better data

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Text of Note

In this book the author puts the $600 billion dollar global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. His previous book Bad Science exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In this follow-up, he points out that doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact, even government regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who need it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and failed to protect us. Instead, they take money and favours, in a world so fractured that medics and nurses are now educated by the drugs industry. Patients are harmed in huge numbers. The author, a writer on the science behind medicine, here shows exactly how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and what is needed to fix them

Clinical trials-- Moral and ethical aspects

Drugs-- Quality control

Drugs-- Testing

Drugs-- Testing-- Moral and ethical aspects

Pharmaceutical industry-- Moral and ethical aspects

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Goldacre, Ben

Date of Transaction

20130211232001.0

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[Book]

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