Healthy Skepticism Library
Items mentioning or quoting Healthy Skepticism members or activities
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Sweet M.
Website launched to expose "tricks" of drug ads
BMJ 2003 Oct 18;327:(7420):936
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7420/936
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Saunders C.
New web site targets drug ads.
Australian Doctor Weekly 2003 Oct 10
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Mak HK.
Drug influences.
Australian Doctor Weekly 2003 Jul 17
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Toop L, Richards D, Dowell T.
The leadership role of general practice in public health: advocating a ban of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs in New Zealand.'Possums in the headlights?'.
Br J Gen Pract. 2003 Apr 1;53:(489):342-5
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Corbett J.
Drug pushers - the campaign for Glivec funding
New Zealand Herald 2002 Oct 26
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3001076
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Cassels A
A tough advertising pill to swallow
The Ottawa Citizen 2001 Jun 7
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Sanders C
Drug company ads targeting consumers hit
Winnipeg Free Press 2001 Jun 2
HSL20130
Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising
Working Group on Women and Health Protection 2001 Jun 1
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Robinson J.
Prescription games: money, ego, and power inside the global pharmaceutical industry
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 2001
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0771075685/qid=1124431439/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_10_3/026-3368758-1517268
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Jureidini JN.
Epidemic of schizophrenia in children or inappropriate prescribing?
Med J Aust 2000 Nov 20;173:(10):555-6
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Braithwaite J, Drahos P.
Global business regulation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521784999
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Riggert E.
Drug firms' 'gifts' to GPs
The Advertiser 1999 Jul 26
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Sweet M
Getting to the consumer direct
Australian Doctor 1999 Mar 529
HSL20011
Pemble L
New way to handle drug reps
Medical Observer 1998 Aug 2165
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Misleading promotions in Australia
Scrip 1997 Dec 26;
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Sweet M
Healthy Profits: Why your doctor is a pill pusher
The Sydney Morning Herald 1997 Oct 25
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Blutstein H
Dealing Drugs Legally
The Big Issue 1996 Nov 1714-16
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Ragg M.
MaLAM and Augmentin
Lancet 1993;342:487
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Hailstone B
Doctors 'misled' by advertising
The Advertiser 1991 Jun 1810
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Miller C
Doctors hit drug firms over ads
The Herald and Weeky Times 1990 Jan 31
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MaLAM’s open letter to industry
Scrip 1989;(1457):23
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McIntosh P
Drug companies feel a watchdog's bite
The Age 1988 Jun 48
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Haslam A
Doctor on warpath
New Sunday Times 1986 May 4
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Smith D
When misleading ads can kill
The National Times 1985 May 23
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Miller C
Drug ads in Third World need scrutiny
Australian Doctor 1985 Mar 628
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Fowler J
'War' on the drug firms who cheat
Daily News 1984 Nov 2310
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Fighting killer drugs
The West Australian 1984 Nov 2131
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MLAM rallies health care activists against 'inappropriate' marketing
International Barometer 1985 Nov1 & 3