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Update 2007-03-29

ADWATCH: GSK AVANDIA
Do not ADOPT rosiglitazone as first-line diabetes treatment.
www.healthyskepticism.org/global/adwatch/issue/au2007-03

HEALTHY SKEPTICISM INTERNATIONAL NEWS
February 2007 Vol 25 No 2
What everyone needs to know about drug marketing. Part 3: Place, Promotion and Goals
By: Peter R Mansfield
This is the final part of a three part article about drug promotion.
www.healthyskepticism.org/global/news/issue/hsin07-02

MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES PETITION: ASK NOVARTIS TO DROP CASE AGAINST INDIA
Novartis is taking the Indian government to court. If Novartis is successful in its challenge against the Indian government and its patent law, more medicines are likely to be patented in India, making it very difficult for generic producers to make affordable versions of them. This could affect millions of people around the world who depend on medicines produced in India. Please sign the petition:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090122074056/http://www.msf.org/petition_india/international.html *

RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
When we hear about relevant websites that are new or new to us we list them in our What’s New forum:
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The best of the new websites include:

PharmedOut
An independent project run by physicians for physicians and other prescribers. The goal is to disseminate information about how pharmaceutical companies influence what we prescribe, to increase access to unbiased information about drugs, and to encourage physicians to choose pharma-free CME.
www.pharmedout.org

Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma
Updates and Commentary related to the book “Hooked: Ethics, the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry” by Howard Brody, MD, PhD ( Rowman and Littlefield, January, 2007 )
http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com

Pharmalot
Pharmalot’s self description is “a home for lively discussion about news and trends in the pharmaceutical industry. This blog is written by Ed Silverman, a veteran journalist for The Star-Ledger of New Jersey.
http://pharmalot.com

We will introduce more websites in a later issue of Healthy Skepticism Updates.

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909