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.

• 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
• 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
• Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
• Drug information for consumers and patients - a review of the research October 2006
• Drug Tariff Online
• EudraPharm
• European Commmission - Pharmaceuticals
• The fool's gold that heals - Jacky Law
• Getting the Right Medicines? - Kings Fund 2003 (pdf file)
• 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 Research Manufacturers of America
• Pharmacy Law and Ethics Resource Centre
• Powdermed
• Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority
• 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

A musical list of drugs

5/04/08