Doctor Training: Drug companies invest in their salesforce

Your Prescription: Nobody knows, except the regulator, a large corporation, and drug companies

You might reasonably assume that the treatment that your doctor prescribes for you in his surgery is as private as the confessional. But, of course,...

No drug company funding on this site

Many patient support and help web sites are not quite as independent as you might think. In fact, most receive some funding from drug companies, which...

Medicine tainted by drug company inducements

The American Heart Association (AHA) accepted an $11 million donation from a drug company that produces a thrombolytic - a drug that breaks down blood...

No Cure, No Charge: How to make a drug company bankrupt

Now here’s an interesting idea that is being tested in the UK. A drug company has agreed to charge the country’s National Health Service for its mult...

Bad handwriting: It costs sales to the drug companies

Drug companies spend millions, and perhaps billions, of pounds and dollars on convincing doctors to prescribe their drugs. So nothing could be more ga...

Toys Home, Part Two: Drug companies boycott conference following speech

That’s not the only ‘we’ll take our toys home’ tantrum from the drug companies reported this week. A young medical researcher almost stopped the show...