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...There’s a lot of good ones on pharma reps, a couple of really funny videos on them...
...videos on pharma reps. That’s what everybody uses YouTube...
...regular doses of risperidone, one of a class of drugs known as antipsychotics or neuroleptics, which have been linked to a host of harmful side effects, including movement disorders. Critics were indignant that a potentially dangerous drug was being used on a hunch, and suspected the influence of big pharma and its drive to expand its markets. "This," American mental health lobbyist David Oaks told Time in 2001, "is one of the most bizarre and counterproductive human experiments on young people I know about...
...also working against biodefense. With the industry's profits under pressure, none of the big firms are keen on diverting research from potential blockbusters to drugs for exotic germs like Ebola and plague, which may be stockpiled and used only in an emergency. Biodefense is "not attractive to Big Pharma, which is making money off things we use a few times a day," says Michael Greenberger, director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland. Companies are also leery of huge liability risks if biodefense vaccines and treatments are administered to wide swaths...
There are other benefits to buying Chiron that Vasella doesn't mention. "One of the reasons that the big pharma companies stay in the business is because it does give you access to the very highest levels of government," says Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Geoffrey Porges. "You are perceived as someone who is solving a problem." That's an image any drug company would be happy...