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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs.

Are Big Pharma murderers?
A New York Times book review focuses on the work of Melody Petersen, a former reporter for the Times. She has written a book against Big Pharma's marketing tactics called Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. Petersen asks if drugs could be killing people but never being blamed, allowing them to harm even more Americans until someone, finally, catches on. Petersen calls for non-government watchdog agencies and closer oversight on published studies, which she says are ghostwritten by pharma spokespeople.
The review is here

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Alan Cassels takes on the disease mongerers

"Alan Cassels has managed a variety of research and evaluation studies over the past twelve years primarily focusing on the impact of provincial drug benefits policies on consumers. He led the first ever evaluation of Canadian newspaper coverage of new drugs (published in April 2003 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal) and has lectured at Canadian journalism schools on issues surrounding pharmaceutical reporting in Canada. He is currently affiliated with the School of Health Information Sciences at the University of Victoria, and is co-author with Ray Moynihan of "Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning us all into Patients" (Greystone books, 2005)."



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