Republican senator Chuck Grassley has made it his mission to shake up the cosy relationship between doctors, researchers and the pharmaceutical industry. Now he is introducing legislation to force drugs companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors. He tells Jim Giles why he has chosen to be a troublemaker
read more here: Exposing the links between doctors and Big Pharma
(via NewScientist)
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Hi, in the UK, certain Pharma companies were fined huge amounts for getting Doctors to use “older” patients as case studies for trailed drugs, when the patient had no clue this was being done, and the Doctor was being paid a fee for each new “trial patient”.
Thank you for the info & the comment. I just hope that thanks to the new media and their speed we can share & spread knowledge & facts. This way we can protect us & our relatives better.