| Description |
xviii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
1. Missing data -- 2. Where do new drugs come from? -- 3. Bad regulators -- 4. Bad trials -- 5. Bigger, simpler trials -- 6. Marketing |
| Summary |
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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Medicine |
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Pharmaceutical Companies |
| Notes |
previously published: 2012 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Drugs -- Testing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Drugs -- Testing.
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices.
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Drugs -- Quality control.
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| ISBN |
9780007498086 |
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