5/31/2000 – Profit Motive Creates Conflicts in Drug Trials

Here are another couple of articles on the close ties between the drug industry and medicine have become even closer. From these articles we learn what has gone wrong with the clinical trials that we thought were protecting us from big profit motives. The overall general attitude now seems to be: “Approve all drugs in…

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4/16/2000 – More from Boston Globe on Drug Safety Issues

This story ran on page A10 of the Boston Globe on 5/15/2000. © Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company. A BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL Better drug reporting deal with a wide range of conditions, from depression to osteoporosis, doctors are reaching increasingly for their prescription pads. Patients who consume these drugs have faith that any side effects…

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