Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15483
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Publication type: news
Teugels M, Bouma J, Alfter B.
The Struggle For the Patient
Investigators Reporters Network Europe 2008 Oct
http://www.irene-reporters.org/Nieuwe%20site/Pharma/index_copy(1).html
Abstract:
The European Commission is willing to allow the pharmaceutical industry to directly inform patients on prescription medicines. Public health services in the member states are fiercely opposed against this business plan of the Directorate-General Enterprise: one cannot expect the information supplied by pill manufacturers to be impartial.