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Big Pharma Making a killing: New Internationalist November 2003
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2003
A look at big pharmaceutical companies and issues surrounding their pursuit for profit at the expense of peoples' health.
Deception By Design: Pharmaceutical Promotion in the Third World
Lexchin, Joel; Kaur, Shila Rani
Book
1995
The authors discuss the workings of the pharmaceutical industry by exposing the unethical marketing practices, double standards and weak marketing codes.
The Drug Companies' Expansion Into Emerging Markets: Profit, Drugs, and International Markets
Chelala, Cesar
Article
2013
Faced with declining prescription drug sales in the U.S., and having lost patent protection for many profitable drugs, the drug industry is relying increasingly in new markets such as China and other ...
HealthSources.ca
Website
2017
A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important arti...
Pfizer's Elixir of Youth?: Tamoxifen Makes Women Live Longer (Says Manufacturer of Tamoxifen)
Rosenberg, Martha
Article
2012
It was a great moment in Pharma funded physician “education.” At a symposium at the American Psychiatric Association’s 2010 meeting called “Mood, Memory and Myths: What Really Happens at Menopause,” t...
Private Profits vs Public Policy: The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State
Lexchin, Joel
Book
2016
According to Joel Lexchin, "Given the central role that medicines play in keeping us healthy, it is essential that we understand the policy environment that governs drug development, from the initial ...
The Real Pushers: A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Drug Industry
Lexchin, Joel
Book
1984
A comprehensive analysis of the pharmaceutical drug industry in Canada.
Strictly Legal: The Caronia Decision and a Culture of Mercantile Nihilism
Iglarsch, Hugh
Article
2013
The Caronia decision reveals an injustice system whose function is to provide legal cover for the excesses of the corporate elite. Caronia is a wake-up moment, announcing that the institutions and the...
The Truth About the Drug Companies
Angell, Marcia
Article
2004
The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion) [in 2002]. Over the past two...

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Health Action International
Stichting Health Action International is a Dutch civil society Non-Government Organisation (NGO), with a coordinating office (HAI Global) in Amsterdam and partner regional offices Africa (Nairobi), As...
Healthy Skepticism
Concerned with the appropriate -- and inappropriate -- marketing of pharmaceuticals.

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Pharmageddon
Healy, David
2012
David Healy's comprehensive argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine is an indictment of problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities.
Pharmageddon: how the US got hooked on prescription drugs
White House declares prescription drug abuse in US 'alarming' as thousands flock to Florida – the home of oxycodone pill mills
Pilkington, Ed
2011
An investigation into the underground trade of oxycodone, a widely abused prescription drug. Ninety-eight percent of prescriptions in the United States come from southern Florida, where doctors at "pi...

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Healthy Skepticism
Countering misleading drug promotion
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Misleading drug promotion harms health and wastes money. An international non-profit organisation for everyone interested in improving health care.