Pharma companies on trial for widespread overcharging for drugs
Pharmaceutical companies have always had a profitable business for a combination of reasons – people need their drugs, the money
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The end of the Prozac era: why pharma is abandoning psychiatry
A short history of psychiatry in the West The 1950s was a revolutionary era for the clinical introduction of new
Read moreWhat might Brexit mean for the NHS?
The Brexit event is huge, and will surely impact the NHS significantly. In the first instance the economic downturn, which
Read moreWhat is thalidomide and what caused the thalidomide disaster of the 1950s and 60s?
Thalidomide was first developed by Chemie-Grunenthal, a German pharmaceutical company, in 1954. It was first marketed as a sedative, and
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