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from the Independent:
Pharmaceutical companies cause doctors to receive biased information about drugs ‘costing hundreds of thousands of lives’
Pharmaceutical companies cause doctors to receive biased information about drugs ‘costing hundreds of thousands of lives’
The number of elderly patients being admitted to hospital due to adverse drug reactions is ‘one in three’
Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
Wednesday 24 February 2016
Pharmaceutical companies are causing biased information to be given to doctors about the efficacy of drugs, causing an epidemic of misinformed practitioners that is “costing hundreds of thousands of lives” across the world, it has been claimed.
Speaking to The Independent, Dr Aseem Malhotra, an NHS cardiologist and a trustee of the King’s Fund health think tank, claims there is “a systemic lack of transparency in the information being given to doctors to prescribe medication, in terms of the benefits of drugs being grossly exaggerated and their side effects under reported in studies”.