Lower-cost generic drugs can save patients millions in medication costs, but only if they make it to pharmacy shelves.
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How Drug Companies Distort Science: Q&A with Ben Goldacre
What you don’t know about how drugs are tested and marketed could hurt you, says author Ben Goldacre in his book Bad Pharma
Rulings Threaten FDA and States’ Ability to Regulate Drugs and Therapy
Two cases could trigger dramatic changes in the way medications and therapies are regulated.
Psychiatrist Contends the Field Is ‘Committing Professional Suicide’
Psychiatry — and medicine in general — has a dangerously close relationship with the pharmaceutical industry
How to Survive a Plague: Q&A with Act-Up’s Peter Staley on Effective Activism
The AIDS advocacy group Act-Up sped up the FDA’s drug approval process, improved patients’ access to drugs and changed the course of an epidemic. How did they do it?
A Doctor’s Dilemma: When Crucial New-Drug Data Is Hidden
In a new book, “Bad Pharma,” British columnist Dr. Ben Goldacre lays out all the clever ways in which the pharmaceutical industry is getting bad drugs onto shelves
Top 10 Drug Company Settlements
Multibillion-dollar settlements against big drug companies have become all too common in recent years. Here’s a rogues gallery of the worst offenders
Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Bipolar 2: A Diagnosis Muddled by the Market
Why the Congressman’s recent diagnosis of bipolar 2 has a history of controversy
Q&A: Psychiatrist Dr. David Healy Defines ‘Pharmageddon’
A Q&A with the author of Pharmageddon about how the pharmaceutical industry has co-opted medicine.
Good Grief! Psychiatry’s Struggle to Define Mental Illness Goes Awry
A proposed new definition of depression would include normal bereavement. Why that’s a bad idea.
Investigation Shows Drug Companies Pay Bad Doctors Big Bucks to Consult
In a sweeping investigation of doctors paid by leading pharmaceutical companies to promote their drugs, the nonprofit ProPublica has found that hundreds have been accused of professional misconduct, lacked credentials or have …
Q&A: Discussing the Dark Side of Medicine with Author Carl Elliott
Welcome to Mind Reading, Healthland’s new series of talks with authors of “brainy” books.