Healthy Skepticism Library item: 14416

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Publication type: news

Jack A.
Plan to give drug groups direct public access
The Financial Times.com 2008 Oct 3
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/09fdd612-90d2-11dd-8abb-0000779fd18c.html

Full text:

The pharmaceutical industry would have greater freedom to provide information on its medicines directly to patients across Europe under proposals endorsed on Thursday by EU officials, member states, drug companies and consumer groups.

Thursday’s concluding meeting of the “high-level pharmaceutical forum”, convened by the European Commission to find ways to boost competitiveness, called for enhanced “quality of information” to patients by “all the relevant players”.