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Watch the Seattle Book Discussion about Bad Pharma

How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

Watch the Seattle Book Discussion about Bad Pharma, an 86 min Video with @BenGoldacreLast February 18th, 2013, at Town Hall Seattle, Dr. Ben Goldacre talked about his book, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, in which he discusses the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the global healthcare system and argues that pharmaceutical companies hide negative studies and use questionable testing and intensive lobbying to get what they want, regardless of whether the drugs they produce are good for patients. Watch the video  (1 hour, 26 minutes) .

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What Doctors don’t know about the Drugs they prescribe…

How Drug Companies mislead Doctors and harm Patients

When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers in the dark. In this impassioned talk, Ben Goldacre explains why these unreported instances of negative data are especially misleading and dangerous.

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UK Pharma Times Royal Institution head-to-head Debate with Ben Goldacre

Pharma Times Online, 2013

The video, shot during the debate at the Royal Institution last month, shows the author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma debate the notion ‘Pharma is not getting its act together’ with the chief executive of the ABPI.

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UK new NHS Reforms: do we want Doctors to make Money from their Prescriptions?

As new NHS reforms turn GPs into businessmen, one doctor asks... do you really want them to profit from the pills they prescribe? Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298251/As-new-NHS-reforms-turn-GPs-businessmen-asks--Do-really-want-profit-pills-I-prescribe.html#ixzz2OUApLhfw Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook” We all assume that doctors choose treatments based on what’s best for us. But would you feel nervous if you knew that your doctor stood to make money from the treatments they recommend? ”

Read As new NHS reforms turn GPs into businessmen, one doctor asks… do you really want them to profit from the pills they prescribe? by Ben Goldacre

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Bad Pharma

Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope

How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients

Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre on Flickr

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From amazon.co.uk : ” 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. Patients are harmed in huge numbers.

Ben Goldacre is Britain’s finest writer on the science behind medicine, and ‘Bad Pharma’ is a clear and witty attack, showing exactly how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix them. ”

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre LiveChat Comments on Big Pharma via @DES_Journal

Live Chat Transcript With Ben Goldacre: How Bad Is the Pharma Industry?” In medicine, we need to see all the results, positive and negative, to get a clear understanding of the overall risks and benefits of a treatment. If we only see the positive results, with the less flattering results withheld, then we get an exaggerated picture of the benefits. This can lead to bad treatment decisions. We can be misled into thinking an ineffective treatment is actually effective, meaning a patient is exposed to side effects unnecessarily, or deprived of another effective treatment that they would have had instead. We can be misled into thinking it’s worth enduring side effects for a large benefit, when in reality the benefits are only modest “.

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Pharmaceutical Companies deliberately mislead Doctors into prescribing useless, harmful Meds

Doctors end up prescribing useless (or harmful) medicines

Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds” Writing in the Guardian, Ben Goldacre reveals the shocking truth about the drugs that doctors prescribe: thanks to aggressive manipulation from the pharmaceutical companies and passivity from regulators, doctors often don’t know that the drugs were ineffective (or harmful) in a majority of their clinical trials. ”

Read Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds by Cory Doctorow, SEP 22, 2012.

Big Pharma Executives aware of issues and failing to make them public

Health Care’s Trick Coin

Health Care’s Trick Coin“ This month, Johnson & Johnson is facing more than 10,000 lawsuits over an artificial hip that has been recalled because of a 40 percent failure rate within five years. Mistakes happen in medicine, but internal documents showed that executives had known of flaws with the device for some time, but had failed to make them public “

mmm… sounds familiar Eli Lilly !

Read Health Care’s Trick Coin by Ben Goldacre, a doctor, author of “Bad Pharma”. It’s Time for Actions: did you SIGN THE PETITION ?

How Drug Companies mislead Doctors and harm Patients

Edited extract from “Bad Pharma”

Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds
The shocking truth about the drugs that doctors prescribe

Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds ” which contains a long excerpt from Ben Goldacre‘s forthcoming book, Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients…

Where are the lessons learned from the DES drug tragedy?