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Aggressive and misleading marketing is fuelling demand for medicinal cannabis. Here are some of the ways clinics bend the rules.
We suspect these drug company payments are just the tip of the iceberg.
The Purdue Pharma settlement is paltry compared to costs of the opioid crisis. Without major changes to pharma industry regulation, there is little reason to think a similar crisis won’t occur again.
The increasing availability of drugs online raises questions about policing methods that were developed to deal with more traditional drug markets.
Drug companies funded more than 116,000 educational events for doctors over four years. Now you can find out exactly which companies footed the bills and how much they paid.
Consumers can’t always be confident claims for complementary medicines stack up. Here’s how to foster truth in advertising.
An important new study in the United States has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of that company’s products.
The view of many doctors that “I don’t let myself be influenced” might be the biggest barrier to change.
Just because they can’t prescribe medications that does not mean nurses have no influence on important decisions for patient care.
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