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September 22, 2012 09:02 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Kra9ht4Y3KA/pharmaceutical-companies-delib.html
Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds
Writing in the Guardian, Ben Goldacre reveals the shocking truth about the drugs that doctors prescribe: thanks to aggressive manipulation from the pharmaceutical companies and passivity from regulators, doctors often don't know that the drugs were ineffective (or harmful) in a majority of their clinical trials. That's because pharma companies set up their trials so [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Kra9ht4Y3KA/pharmaceutical-companies-delib.html
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