PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behaviour, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm. He convincingly draws close co
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Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime
How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare
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- English
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Topic
MedicineSubtopic
Clinical MedicineTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Richard Smith
- Foreword by Drummond Rennie
- About the author
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Confessions from an insider
- 3 Organised crime, the business model of big pharma
- 4 Very few patients benefit from the drugs they take
- 5 Clinical trials, a broken social contract with patients
- 6 Conflicts of interest at medical journals
- 7 The corruptive influence of easy money
- 8 What do thousands of doctors on industry payroll do?
- 9 Hard sell
- 10 Impotent drug regulation
- 11 Public access to data at drug agencies
- 12 Neurontin, an epilepsy drug for everything
- 13 Merck, where the patients die first
- 14 Fraudulent celecoxib trial and other lies
- 15 Switching cheap drugs to expensive ones in the same patients
- 16 Blood glucose was fine but the patients died
- 17 Psychiatry, the drug industry’s paradise
- 18 Pushing children into suicide with happy pills
- 19 Intimidation, threats and violence to protect sales
- 20 Busting the industry myths
- 21 General system failure calls for a revolution
- 22 Having the last laugh at big pharma
- Index
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