Links
Recommended reading about the subject
- American Medical Students Association PharmFree Campaign
- Health Information Research Unit (Canada)
- No Free Lunch (USA)
- Patient Decision Aids - Ottawa Health Research Institute (Canada)
- PharmedOut
- Public Citizen Health Research Group (USA)
- WHO/NGO Drug Promotion Database
- perxinfo.org
Articles on the Web
- Benefits vs. Risks in DTC:
What do people understand & remember?
Duke University - AdWatch:
Prescription drugs
Consumer Reports - Ask
Pharmie: How can I make sure I am getting a drug that is effective,
safe and affordable? How can I help my doctor get unbiased information?
(and other related questions)
Prescription Access Litigation - Clinical
Trial Said to Have Been Marketing in Disguise
MedPage Today - Conflict
of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice
Institute of Medicine
- Conflict
of interest review
Emory University - Demand
Effects of Recent Changes in Prescription Drug Promotion
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Policy - Dispelling the Illusion of Invulnerability: The Motivations and Mechanisms
of Resistance to Persuasion
University of Minnesota Psychology Department - Direct-to-Consumer
Advertising of Prescription Drugs
National Health Policy Forum - Direct-to-Consumer
Prescription Drug Advertising Adds Significantly To Prescription
Drug Spending Growth, New Study Finds
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Policy - Direct-to-Consumer
Drug Ads Have Little Effect on Sales: Study
US News & World Report - 'Dollars
for Docs' Series Shines Light On Drug Company, Physician Ties
National Public Radio (NPR) - Drug Industry
Documents Archive - Highlights
University of California - Drug
Companies Hire Troubled Doctors As Expert
National Public Radio (NPR) - Drug
Industry Mines Physicians' Data to Boost Sales
National Public Radio (NPR) - Drug
Maker to Report Fees to Doctors
New York Times - Drugmaker
Practices Deliver Sales, But At A Cost
National Public Radio (NPR) - Drugmakers
Hooked On Shady Promotion
National Public Radio (NPR) - Exorcising Ghosts and Unwelcome Guests
Annals of Internal Medicine - FDA
Chides Pfizer For Omitting Drug Risks On Lipitor Website
National Public Radio (NPR) - Free drug samples may not be a great deal
USA Today - Following the Script: How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors
Public Library of Science: Medicine - Guest Authorship and Ghostwriting
in Publications Related to Rofecoxib
Journal of American Medical Association - How
To Win Doctors And Influence Prescriptions
National Public Radio (NPR) - Medical
schools, journals fight industry influence
Salon.com - Medical
Ripoffs: New drugs, big dollars
Consumer Reports - Nexium integrates clinical, commercial
Medical Marketing and Media | Find Articles at BNET - No Mug? Drug Makers Cut Out Goodies for Doctors
New York Times - Pharmaceutical
industry marketing to physicians: what’s the big deal?
Clinical Correlations: NYU Internal Medicine Blog - Pfizer
Broke the Law by Promoting Drugs for Unapproved Uses
Bloomberg
- Prescription slips 'mined' by drug makers
Seattle PI - Senator
Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting
New York Times
- The Medical Industrial Complex: Disease Mongering, and the Bottom Line
EasyDiagnosis - Soft Targets: Nurses and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Public Library of Science: Medicine - U.S. Medical School Policies on Individual Financial Conflicts of Interest Results of an AAMC Survey
Association of American Medical Colleges - The Development of Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising Regulation
Food and Drug Law Journal - Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Prescription Drug Spending
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Policy - Why Olanzapine Beats Risperidone, Risperidone Beats Quetiapine, and
Quetiapine Beats Olanzapine: An Exploratory Analysis of Head-to-Head
Comparison Studies of Second-Generation Antipsychotic
American Journal of Psychiatry
The $8,000 Pill:Why are some
pharmaceuticals so expensive?
Slate
Non-industry supported sources of drug information for patients
- Consumer Union’s Best Buy Drugs
- Medline Plus
- Public Citizen
- Therapeutics Letter Canada (free, online)
Evidence-based sources of drug information for professionals
- Cochrane Database ($265/year)
- Consumer Union’s Best Buy Drugs (free, online)
- Lexicomp ($75-150/year)
- Medical Letter ($89/year)
- Micromedex ($$$ institutional subscription?)
- National Guideline Clearinghouse AHRQ (free, online)
- Prescriber’s Letter ($88/year)
- OHSU
- The RxFiles Canada (free, online)
- Therapeutics Letter Canada (free, online)
- Benefits vs. Risks in DTC: What do people understand & remember?
Books
- Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, Rob Walker. Random House, 2008
- Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies, Greg Critser. Mariner Books, 2007
- Hope or Hype: The obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises, Richard A Deyo, M.D., M.P.H, and Donald L. Patrick, Ph.D., M.S.P.H. AMACOM, 2005
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert B. Cialdini, PhD. Collins Business, 2006
- On
the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger
Your Health,
Jerome P Kassire. Oxford University Press, 2005 - Pharmaceutical
Company Disclosures
National Public Radio (NPR)
Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs,
Jerry Avorn. Vintage, 2005 - Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely. Harpercollins, 2008
- The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It, Marcia Angell, M.D. Random House, 2005
- Should I Be Tested for Cancer?: Maybe Not and Here's Why, H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H. University of California Press, 2006
- Washington Doctors
On Drug Company Payrolls
KUOW -
PodCasts on radio
-
The Conversation
- Are the products we buy becoming part of our identity?
KUOW Radio - The Ethics of Prescribing Placebo Drugs; and Is There An Upside to
the Recession?
KUOW Radio
DVD