Drug companies and prescribing
This is a list of links to firms and to commentaries on related issues. There is more on our page on private involvement in UK healthcare and on our camapign against prescription charges and there is a separate page on substance abuse.
- The 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide Incident
- Abbott Laboratories
- Actelion
- Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link
- Adverse drug reactions wastes NHS £2BN reveals Compass March 2008
- Allergy Therapeutics
- America's Other Drug Problem (pdf file)
- Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry
- AstraZeneca
- Bayer
- A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Drugs for people not for profit Compass 2009
- Black Triangle - a medical/pharmaceutical blog
- British National Formulary
- Electronic Medicine's Compendium - database of drugs licensed in the UK
- Competing interests / conflicts of interest (BMJ)
- Consumers International
- Disease Mongering
- Drugs and the Health Service SMA 1960
- Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
- Drug information for consumers and patients - a review of the research October 2006
- Drug Tariff Online
- Drugs and the Health Service (1960 pamphlet on drug costs for private patients)
- EudraPharm
- European Commmission - Pharmaceuticals
- The fool's gold that heals - Jacky Law
- Getting the Right Medicines? - Kings Fund 2003
- World of GlaxoSmithKline
- Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
- Goldshield
- International Aids Vaccine Initiative
- Institute of Clinical Research
- Janssen-Cilag
- Link pharmaceuticals
- Malaria Vaccine Initiative
- Medicines and Choice Which
- Merck
- Medicines for Malaria Venture
- NICE
- No free lunch
- Novartis
- Organon
- Oxfam
- Patenting Genes (BMJ 2004)
- Patients and doctors need more training about over-the-counter medicines, says BMA
- Pfizer
- Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
- Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers of America
- Pharmacy Law and Ethics Resource Centre
- Powdermed
- Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority
- Prevention better than promise of a cure Financial Times 2009
- Procter and Gamble
- Proprietary Association of Great Britain
- Regulation of prescribing (BMJ)
- Roche
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Sanofi-Aventis
- Schulke & Mayr
- Schering-Plough
- Scrip Magazine
- SOCIALIST HEALTH CAMPAIGN POLICIES FOR THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY 1996
- The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry Health Select Committee 2005
- Treatment Action Campaign
- What Are the Public Health Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising?
- Wonder Drug Inspires Deep, Unwavering Love Of Pharmaceutical Companies
- World Trade Organisation Intellectual Property Rights