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Es el título, de las conclusiones del estudio realizado en UK por compass que subtitula:


Drugs for people not just for profit

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Una síntesis del trabajo aparece publicada en Guardian (sabado 29 agosto 2009)


De ella destacamos:

"The pharmaceutical industry risks becoming the next big economic disaster after the banks, the report says, but it is too important to public health to be allowed to fail.

"The argument in this report is that the pharmaceutical industry must be more effectively regulated, so that all stakeholders – the public as well as the private investors – get a better deal. Like housing, transport, gas, electricity and now financial services, some things are too important to be left to the whims of the market," said Zoe Gannon, research fellow at Compass and the report's co-author.

"We have learnt from the banking crisis that some things are too important to let fail – the pharmaceutical industry is one of them. The report shows that unless we take action now we are not going to get the lifesaving drugs we need in the future," said co-author Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham.

Los autores reclaman (enfaticamente):

"We wants to see in effective regulation that would stop biased clinical trials and excessive influence over the medical profession. It is now essential that the government step. Only through effective regulation can the pharmaceutical industry be saved from its own worst enemy – itself."