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Healthy Skepticism Updates

Update 2010-06-18

Recent announcements

A 2 day international conference in The Netherlands, a 4 day Masterclass with Ray Moynihan in Spain and a Seminar with Peter Mansfield in Portugal:


Conference Program: Selling Sickness, Amsterdam, 7-8 Oct 2010
The program has now been released for the International Conference ‘Selling Sickness’
7 and 8 October 2010 - Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam

What is selling sickness and is it for real?
• Where science meets marketing - Ray Moynihan
• Industry’s role in informing the public - Michel Dutrée
• DSM-V Opening Pandora’s Box - Allen Frances

What new methods are being used?
• The Dutch situation, Supervision and law enforcement - Josée Hansen
• Clinical trials as disease mongering instruments - Trudy Dehue
• Update on social media - John Mack

Learning from documented examples
• Promotion to the public: European disease awareness campaigns - Teresa Alves
• Promotion of prescription medicines to physicians and the public - Dee Mangin

Who pays the bill?
• Ethical aspects - to be confirmed
• The influence on patients - Ilaria Passarani
• The influence on rationale use of medicine - Kees de Joncheere

Redesigning the system?
• Financial and insurance aspects - to be confirmed
• Independent information for patients - Hilda Bastian
• Redesigning the incentives for the pharmaceutical industry - Dean Baker

The need for new regulations and guidelines
• Regulations on diseases promotion - Benk Korthals
• Regulation of pharmaceutical promotion - Graham Dukes
• Guidelines and HTA - to be confirmed

New responsibilities for main stakeholders?
• The industry: partner in solutions? - to be confirmed
• Should the Medicines Evaluation Board be involved? - to be confirmed
• International Cooperation - Peter Mansfield

Direct links to:
Detailed programme
Time Table of the programme
Conference registration
Call for posters


Masterclass with Ray Moynihan: Disease-mongering and public health, Mahón, Spain, 20-24 Sep 2010
The course will aim to deepen students’ understanding of the public health problem of disease-mongering: the process of widening the boundaries of illness in order to expand markets for treatments.

Seminário com Peter Mansfield: Épossível fazer melhor! Porto, Portugal 11 Oct 2010
Educação médica, formação contínua e investigação pela indústria farmacêutica: Épossível fazer melhor!
(Information, education and research from pharmaceutical companies: We can do better!)

 

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