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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Big Pharma

1. April 4, 2011 08:26 PM

   Audit Notes: Hiltzik on Drug R&D, A 1 Percent “Score”, Paywalls

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Los Angeles Times's Michael Hiltzik finds a study that questions the drug lobby's line on how much it costs to develop medicines: The statistic that may be most hazardous to your health is one pegging the research and development cost of bringing a new drug to market at $1.3 billion. Its purveyor is the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of...

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2. November 29, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: WaPo on Avandia, giving away the store, plutocrats

   Report shows how drug research is corrupted by corporate money

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Washington Post's Peter Whoriskey has another outstanding story in his series on the Avandia drug scandal at GlaxoSmithKline and what it says about the corruption of our system for testing the safety and efficacy of drugs. Years ago, the government funded a larger share of such experiments. But since about the mid-1980s, research funding by pharmaceutical firms has exceeded...

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