The drugs industry thrives on novelty. Claims for the great new wonder drug fuel shareholder interest, which in turn pushes up the share price. Better yet, doctors are keen to try out the new drug on the patient, which goes straight to the drug...
At least one doctor is less than enthusiastic about the fountain of youth hormone drug test being tested on patients over 60. Newcastle upon Tyne consultant endocrinologist Fredrick Clark is criti ...
If you worry that drugs cause enough serious adverse reactions and side-effects even after passing through a supposed draconian approval process, you’ll be even more concerned about a subtle lobbying that could lead to a relaxation of the licensing...
Oncologists and cancer researchers in the UK are very angry. The object of their ire is the ‘faceless bureaucracy’ of the European Union in Brussels which, they say, is holding back research and new therapies into the disease.
Thanks for the Special Report on antihypertensives (WDDTY vol 14 no 8). Exactly what I needed. I wish this information were in every doctor’s surgery and on his computer screen. Why do they persist in pushing these new pills
Animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year; they are also directly responsible for a massive amount of human and and animal suffering. ...
New drugs are the lifeblood of the pharmaceutical industry, as they account for around a third of a drug company’s profits every year. There’s usually a great deal of excitement generated for a great new ‘breakthrough’ drug. The drug salesmen are...
We think the extent of secrecy in the present system of medicines control in Britain is a disgrace. The public is routinely denied access to all specific information relating to the basis on whic ...
Billy Flynn would have been devastated. For once, the ol’ razzle-dazzle just didn’t work. GlaxoSmithKline, the UK’s largest drug conglomerate, which has grown fatter and fatter acquiring pharmaceutical small fry