pharmaceutical industry

This is a press release from a small Swiss pharmaceutical company. I'm sharing it because the newly appointed chief scientific officer said: "Our lead product candidate, Quilience®, is an exciting technology that we discovered has partial orexin-2 binding activity, and therefore, offers...

I just finished listening to a podcast (2 hrs 45 Minutes) with Katherine Eban the author of the book, "Bottle of Lies"? it certainly captured my attention. The book is about fraud in the generic pharmaceutical manufacturing in Asian countries and the podcast focused a lot on one specific...

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m105?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage (paywalled, no sci-hub link as yet) see also: Retraction of WHO guidance on opioid use https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6933427/

Title : Are Regulatory Bodies Prioritising Drug Company Interests Over Public Safety? Subtitle : The Disturbing Case of the Street Drug Ketamine https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/12/are-regulatory-bodies-prioritising-drug-company-interests-over-public-safety/ Article continues at ...

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I enjoyed watching this documentary recently, absolutely heartbreaking Living Proof (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6604174/ If ME ever gets to the stage where MS is in terms of awareness, research funding, pharmaceutical industry involvement and treatments, this story shows how patient...

or an alternative title I came up with was "The Day That Medicine Died". Link : https://emcrit.org/emnerd/the-case-of-the-scientific-ruse/ Article continues here : https://emcrit.org/emnerd/the-case-of-the-scientific-ruse/