Pharmaceutical Industry

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Doctors in Denial

Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort

Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of … 344 View
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In this personal account Dr. Brian Goldman explains his relationship with Purdue Pharma Canada and how he played a major role as a promoter of OxyContin, for chronic pain, falsely claiming that … 8 $0.80 Add
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Doctors in denial: welcome to the comfort zone

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Provides an overview of the medical industry in Canada paying particular attention to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. Outlines and examines critically the different opinions … 14 $1.40 Add
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Medicine and industry

a marriage of convenience or a marriage made in heaven?

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Outlines how the alliance between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical community developed; economics, Medicare and patents were factors. 15 $1.50 Add
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Government, industry and the medical profession

ménage à trois

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Describes how the alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry developed in the period from the 1960s to 2015. 27 $2.70 Add
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Medical journals — advertisements, money, regulation, rebellion and possibly retrenchment

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Discusses the relationship between medical journals and the pharmaceutical industry. Discusses the push back of medical journals towards the pharmaceutical industry in more recent years and … 37 $3.70 Add
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Academic health science centres

research, money, controversies, conflict of interest and independence

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Describes and analyzes the money received by academic health science centres from the pharmaceutical industry for research and the conflicts that this money may create. 32 $3.20 Add
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Drugs

Regulatory Capture and the Disabling of Drug Safety at Health Canada

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In this chapter, Michèle Brill-Edwards provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the Canadian government has quietly disabled the safety system for drugs in Canada. The Food and Drugs Act … 23 $2.30 Add
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Key opinion leaders, clinical practice guidelines and medical societies

getting the message out

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Examines the impact of the conflicts of interest that occur when Canadian researchers and Canadian medical societies rely on pharmaceutical companies for favours, trips, and research funding. 31 $3.10 Add
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Guidelines on relationships between industry and the medical profession

a guide to salvation?

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Discusses the development of ethical guidelines regarding the pharmaceutical industry by medical organizations by five organizations: the Canadian Medical Association, the College of Physicians … 39 $3.90 Add
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Pharmaceutical Companies

Relationship Between the Canadian Government and Big Pharma — “Clientele Pluralism”

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In this chapter, Joel Lexchin examines the pharmaceutical industry and “clientele pluralism. “ Lexchin argues that the pharmaceutical industry can drive regulation by influencing not … 20 $2.00 Add
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Medical students and physicians-in-training (residents)

get them while they are young

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Examines the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medical education in Canada. 28 $2.80 Add
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Doctors, sales representatives, samples, gifts, trips and dinners

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Discusses the various forms of interactions that pharmaceutical companies have with individual doctors in Canada, and how this impacts the health care they provide to their patients. 32 $3.20 Add
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Don’t worry, be happy?

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Discusses whether patient care is negatively affected by the interactions that pharmaceutical companies have with the medical profession. 23 $2.30 Add
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Reforming the comfort zone so that doctors are no longer in denial

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Outlines the needed reforms to the interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession, outlining industry’s role, government’s role, and the medical … 45 $4.50 Add