Runaway Medicine Quotes

“many of these trials are not investigating novel treatments that patients might hope will save their lives, but rather “me-too” drugs which are copycats of existing medications. It is much cheaper for pharmaceutical manufacturers to bring me-too drugs to market, apply for new patents, heavily market the drugs as the “latest and greatest”, and let the money roll in.[64] Novel drug development is much costlier and riskier — and therefore far less common.”
― Carolyn Barber, Runaway Medicine: What You Don't Know May Kill You

“The implications of all this are obvious: When you control the research, you control the information, the conclusions, the market and the money.”
― Carolyn Barber, Runaway Medicine: What You Don't Know May Kill You