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Medicines from China: What Big Pharma’s Dependence Means for Us

Medicines from China: What Big Pharma’s Dependence Means for Us


Western pharmaceutical companies are increasingly licensing experimental medicines from China — in multi-billion-dollar deals. Why do they do so and what new dependencies does this create?
Post-Marketing Observational Studies: Bribery Through the Back Door?!

Post-Marketing Observational Studies: Bribery Through the Back Door?!


Pharma companies cannot pay doctors to prescribe their medicines more frequently. Yet post-marketing observational studies allow doctors to be paid for documenting the use of those very medicines. Read how this works and why even doctors’ representatives warn about pharmaceutical marketing.