Bad Pharma: How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it
A Medicine, Politics, Medical book. Some have estimated that the pharmaceutical industry overall spends about twice as much on...
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. 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. The result: patients are harmed in huge numbers. Ben Goldacre is Britain's finest writer on...
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So should patients born under Libra and Gemini be deprived of treatment? You would say no, of course, and that would make you wiser than many in the medical profession: the CCSG trial found that aspirin was effective at preventing stroke and death in men, but not in women;30 as a result, women were undertreated for a decade, until further trials and overviews showed a benefit. That is just one of many subgroup analyses that have misled us in medicine, often incorrectly identifying subgroups of people who wouldnt benefit from a treatment that was usually... The American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is sponsored by Coca-Cola. Ben Goldacre, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients Some have estimated that the pharmaceutical industry overall spends about twice as much on marketing and promotion as it does on research and development. Ben Goldacre, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Stop Press: this should be compulsory reading for anyonewith a pulse, really. I cant think of a single person who should be excused from the reading rota here. This is the MOST appalling, horrific, mind-numbing expose on the current state of medicine I had never hoped to see, or know, or be a part of. Ever.You ever go to the doctor?... The brilliant Ben Goldacre manages to tone down his vitriol enough to adopt a galvanizing but not irritating tone. Fascinating look at how captured by pharmaceutical interests the entire medical establishment is, from the scientists producing basic research to the family doctor deciding which drugs to prescribe.A must-read. Now Web-MD... Currently reading this but not so sure how much more I can take. There is some decent information here. The title is absolutely true. Drug companies are businesses and multibillion dollar corporations are not ethical paragons. They do not publish studies that make their drug look bad or even "as good as." There are sponsored journals...
