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Big Pharma Big Greed The Inside Story Of One Lawyer S Battle To Stem The Flood Of Dangerous Medicines And Protect Public Health
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Author : Sidney Kirkpatrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-11
Big Pharma Big Greed The Inside Story Of One Lawyer S Battle To Stem The Flood Of Dangerous Medicines And Protect Public Health written by Sidney Kirkpatrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-11 with Law categories.
Big Pharma Big Greed Second Edition
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Author : Stephen A Sheller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Big Pharma Big Greed Second Edition written by Stephen A Sheller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Art categories.
UPDATED AND REVISED EDITION: Throughout his distinguished legal career, Stephen Sheller has relished the role of the underdog, evincing a sharply honed sense of fair play and justice. Early in his career, he represented Black Panthers in Philadelphia when they were arrested on trumped up murder and conspiracy charges. Later, he was in the vanguard of lawyers who took on the tobacco industry in the 1990s and he reprised that strategy a few years later in targeting Big Pharma for its harmful products and their deleterious effects on public health. In Big Pharma, Big Greed The inside story of one lawyer's battle to stem the flood of dangerous medicines and protect public health Sheller tells a tale that is at once deeply personal but also with wide repercussions for the U.S. health care system and the hundreds of millions of Americans whose lives literally depend on it. Decades of litigating against the pharmaceutical industry taught Sheller one irreducible lesson: In too many instances, unneeded and at times dangerous drugs are foisted on the public without adequate warning as to risks, all in the service of boosting industry profits. All too often, achieving block buster status for a patent protected medication becomes an end in itself, as Big Pharma companies manipulate clinical trial data, draft scholarly articles for friendly physicians often in their pay, and market their drugs for uses that never had been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. This last practice proved to be something of an Achilles Heel for the industry. In litigation that resulted in settlement and fines in the billions, companies such as Eli Lilly acknowledged marketing drugs off label to a broad range of patients for whom the medications had never been approved. Sheller's litigation formed the basis for these settlements and the effort is ongoing. He and other plaintiffs' lawyers now are suing Janssen Pharmaceuticals for the adverse impacts of its drug, Risperdal, a second generation anti-psychotic that Sheller and others allege is linked to the growth of female breast tissue in young boys and men. Already there have been several big jury verdicts against Janssen with hundreds of more cases yet to be tried. In the book, Sheller not only recounts his major litigation battles but also makes sweeping proposals for industry reform. To restore regulatory credibility, Sheller proposes that responsibility for testing new medicines be taken away from the industry and given over to hospitals and other public entities partnering with government regulators. Pharmaceutical companies that betray the public trust would risk government- initiated dissolution. Harsh medicine to be sure, but Sheller believes entirely appropriate to the underlying malady.
Big Pharma
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Author : Jack Reeves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-14
Big Pharma written by Jack Reeves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-14 with categories.
A story of corruption and greed in one of the biggest global business markets in the world the Pharmaceutical industry. From the prospective of a senior drug rep the investigation into fraud in Big Pharma goes right to the top of the political spectrum.
Big Pharma
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Author : Jack Reeves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-23
Big Pharma written by Jack Reeves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-23 with categories.
A story of greed and corruption in the Pharmaceutical industry from the perspective of a senior drug rep working for a global Pharma company that has to face the tough economic, political and moral challenges of bringing a new great drug to market.
Pharma
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Author : Gerald Posner
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Pharma written by Gerald Posner and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and delivers “a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients (The New York Times Book Review). Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry. “Gerald’s dogged reporting, sets Pharma apart from all books on this subject” (The Washington Standard) as we are introduced to brilliant scientists, incorruptible government regulators, and brave whistleblowers facing off against company executives often blinded by greed. A business that profits from treating ills can create far deadlier problems than it cures. Addictive products are part of the industry’s DNA, from the days when corner drugstores sold morphine, heroin, and cocaine, to the past two decades of dangerously overprescribed opioids. Pharma also uncovers the real story of the Sacklers, the family that became one of America’s wealthiest from the success of OxyContin, their blockbuster narcotic painkiller at the center of the opioid crisis. Relying on thousands of pages of government and corporate archives, dozens of hours of interviews with insiders, and previously classified FBI files, Posner exposes the secrets of the Sacklers’ rise to power—revelations that have long been buried under a byzantine web of interlocking companies with ever-changing names and hidden owners. The unexpected twists and turns of the Sackler family saga are told against the startling chronicle of a powerful industry that sits at the intersection of public health and profits. “Explosively, even addictively, readable” (Booklist, starred review), Pharma reveals how and why American drug companies have put earnings ahead of patients.
Bad Pharma
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Author : Ben Goldacre
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2013-02-05
Bad Pharma written by Ben Goldacre and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-05 with Business & Economics categories.
We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We like to imagine that regulators have some code of ethics and let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve useless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients. All these problems have been shielded from public scrutiny because they're too complex to capture in a sound bite. But Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. He believes we should all be able to understand precisely how data manipulation works and how research misconduct in the medical industry affects us on a global scale. With Goldacre's characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for regulation. This is the pharmaceutical industry as it has never been seen before.
Getting Us Hooked
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Author : Matthew Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-02-19
Getting Us Hooked written by Matthew Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-19 with categories.
We all know corporate greed has and will continue to run rampant in America, it just seems to be a fact of life. Another fact of life these days is the frightening Heroin Epidemic that is sweeping our nation.I am an unfortunate statistic of that, as I am a Heroin addict that has been fortunate enough to recover. This book includes parts of my story, but it's purpose is to tell an entirely different kind of story.Getting Us Hooked paints the picture of how Big Pharma, and the rampant greed behind Oxycontin led us to a massive Opioid Epidemic, including the more recent explosion in Heroin abuse.Since it made it's debut in 1995, Oxycontin and other pain-killers have sunk their teeth into millions of Americans. Meanwhile ,the companies that shoved this pill down our throats have made billions of dollars. Despite how public their screw up became, there has still been little accountability.The consequences of this greed have been catastrophic, the latest being mass overdoses in the year of 2016 due to powerful designer drugs cut into street heroin.In October 2016 there were over 88 overdoses in one Florida city alone, and mass overdoses have been happening all over the country in the last year. Can this be traced back to Big Pharma? Read on and find out.Join me as we explore the details of this crisis, and I follow the powder residue of the recent overdoses all the way back to Purdue Pharmaceutical's sophisticated marketing campaign.Whether you have been directly affected by this crisis or not, my book will be an eye-opener, and it may rile you up a bit when you see just how negligent corporations have been in giving us the Heroin Epidemic that is killing our citizens.
Big Pharma
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Author : Jacky Law
language : en
Publisher: Robinson
Release Date : 2006
Big Pharma written by Jacky Law and has been published by Robinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
Pharmaceutical medicine is very, very big business. The top ten players earned more than $200 billion in 2003. One drug, Pfizer's cholesterol pill Lipitor, had sales of more than $9 billion. This kind of money buys an awful lot of friends among doctors and politicians. Most of those involved in the formulation of public health policy seems happy with the present system. The trouble is that the public is starting to have doubts. There is a growing sense that the vast profits of drug companies and their control of the research agenda might not be that good for our health. Jacky Law takes the reader on a journey through the pharmaceutical business and shows how the public is quite right to be concerned about conventional medicine, as it has developed since the late 1970s. She tells a story of spectacular regulatory failure, phenomenally high prices, betrayal of the public interest and a growing awareness among ordinary people that things could be very different. Sophisticated marketing and public relations, not scientific excellence, have helped corporations to preside unchallenged over matters of life and death. It is time, Law argues, for us to take responsibility for our health, not as passive consumers of pharmaceutical medicine, but as informed citizens.
Money Vs Healthcare
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Author : Simon Stanley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-07
Money Vs Healthcare written by Simon Stanley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-07 with categories.
What pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know about modern medicine... It seems like every time we turn around, there is a new "wonder drug" on the market. We've become conditioned to ignore the lengthy list of side effects at the end of medication ads. Why then, are people still suffering from the pains and illnesses these medications claim to fix? We'd like to think medicine and greed cannot coexist, but we have all had to pay for exorbitantly priced treatments that cost corporations a few pennies to make. Maybe you're tired of spending hours in waiting rooms, only to walk out with yet another prescription you didn't ask for. You don't have to spend another second in a waiting room, and you can take action right now to begin improving your health--without Big Pharma's help. You have been led to believe that to prevent and cure ailments, you must introduce chemicals into your body. Why does this go unquestioned, when studies show that the risks often equal, or even outweigh, the purported benefits? Simon Stanley knows the importance of understanding the history that brought the world to this point and has compiled a comprehensive explanation of how healthcare truly works. Armed with new knowledge, you will be presented with the biological "cheat codes" you can make work for you, and not against you. In Money vs. Healthcare, here is just a fraction of what you will discover: How the World Health Organization (WHO) wields more power than you think, and what this means for your health and wellness The surprising origins of Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and why they matter in our modern world How Big Pharma began, as well as the insidious way it has grown into the global powerhouse we know today Why obesity rates have skyrocketed in the past few decades, and what's wrong with the nutritional guidelines we are told to follow Alternatives to Western medicine that are proven to improve health and mentality The importance of hormones, and how your immune system learns to self-heal when they are in balance The true history of vaccine development that's only talked about behind closed doors 6 ways you can boost cell regeneration, improve your sleep schedule, and balance your hormones by weaning your body off addictive additives And much more. Even if you've found some success with medication in the past, you've been caught up in a story Big Pharma spends millions to spread. You deserve to understand how this addiction to prescription medication is affecting your body and your life, and make your own decisions based on knowledge rather than oblivion. If you're ready to drop the drugs and discover how to utilize your body's natural healing abilities, then scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button right now.
Sickening
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Author : John Abramson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Sickening written by John Abramson and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Health & Fitness categories.
The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health. The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. At the heart of the problem is Big Pharma, which funds most clinical trials and therefore controls the research agenda, withholds the real data from those trials as corporate secrets, and shapes most of the information relied upon by health care professionals. In this no-holds-barred exposé, Dr. John Abramson—one of the foremost experts on the drug industry’s deceptive tactics—combines patient stories with what he learned during many years of serving as an expert in national drug litigation to reveal the tangled web of financial interests at the heart of the dysfunction in our health-care system. For example, one of pharma’s best-kept secrets is that the peer reviewers charged with ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the clinical trial reports published in medical journals do not even have access to complete data and must rely on manufacturer-influenced summaries. Likewise for the experts who write the clinical practice guidelines that define our standards of care. The result of years of research and privileged access to the inner workings of the U.S. medical-industrial complex, Sickening shines a light on the dark underbelly of American health care—and presents a path toward genuine reform.
