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Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. Even government regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who need it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and instead take payments, in a situation so corrupted that medics and nurses are now educated by the pharmaceutical industry. Patients are being harmed in huge numbers. http://www.pharmaware.co.uk/other-resources.html
Medical students are taught to make decisions for patients on the basis of the best available evidence. What they are invariably not taught is that the evidence is often withheld, analysed inappropriately, and presented in a biased fashion. As the situation currently stands, doctors could end up actively harming patients without even realising; a horrifying thought which is eruditely laid out in Ben Goldacre’s new book ‘Bad Pharma’. https://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2012/11/19/book-review-what-can-we-do-about-bad-pharma/
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On the pharma market, however, this independent quality control does not really exist. The government has monopolised the approval and review process by establishing organisations such as FDA, and putting heavy restrictions on what their competitors can do. In addition, private companies pay fees to FDA and other healthcare-related governmental organisations that enforce their monopolies on various sectors of the market. It does not help that the intellectual property laws, especially patent laws, deprive companies of any competitors, and they can produce faulty products without any real repercussions, as the customers will have to buy them with no alternative in place, and customer protection agencies cannot hope to win any lawsuits against the government-backed companies.
I think that the solution to the problem, as always, is to take the government out of the equation and fully privatise the whole industry. It works in such countries as Switzerland (where the government merely offers tax credits to companies agreeing to abide by certain production standards), Singapore (where the government mostly stays out of the way of pharma companies) or UAE (where pharma companies are affected by some regulations, but not related to intellectual property laws). In the US, unfortunately, the trend has long been in the reverse direction, where the government is brought in to solve the problems it itself created, which is obviously not a sustainable approach.
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