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Americans spend some $3 trillion a year on health care, representing about 18 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, nearly double what other industrialized countries spend. Some people blame these high costs on big pharmaceutical companies-"Big Pharma" for short-which they accuse of charging exorbitant amounts for certain drugs and raising prices far above the rate of inflation. But others defend the companies, claiming that high prices...

A provocative health documentary, this program investigation takes a closer look at Yasmin, a controversial oral contraceptive that has become a top-selling birth control pill. In the United States more than 4,000 women have taken legal action against the manufacturer, Bayer, and more than 800 in Canada have joined a class-action lawsuit. CBC reporter Erica Johnson meets young women who have taken Yasmin or its sister drug Yaz and experienced serious...

"While the pharmaceutical industry can play an important role in converting the knowledge generated by the Human Genome Project into new medicines, it also faces a popular perception that it is simply out to make money by promoting unsafe medicines to an unsuspecting public. Written by former Pfizer president John LaMattina, this book addresses the progress that the industry has made in improving its abilities to measure both the risk and benefits...

From "pharma bros" to everyday medications, just how did the pharmaceutical industry betray its own history--and how can it return to its tradition of care? It is an unfortunate and life-threatening fact: one in five Americans has skipped vital prescriptions simply because of the cost. These choices are being made even though we have reached a point in medicine where cancers can be cured and sight restored for those blinded by rare genetic disorders....

Developing new medicines, breeding better plant varieties, making cleaning supplies more efficient - biotechnology uses natural cellular and bimolecular processes to develop new technologies or improve existing products. In this film, we look at some of the most promising products being developed now and explore some of the potential dangers.The biotech industry can be divided into three main sections: medicine and pharmaceuticals, industry and agriculture...

Argues that the pharmaceutical industry has shifted its focus from research and development to marketing, contending that a small number of corporations are having a disproportionate influence on the global health-care agenda.

"An in-depth exploration of the way the pharmaceutical industry is manipulating us and our world"--Provided by publisher.

In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why psychiatry, without solid scientific justification, keeps expanding the number of mental disorders it believes to exist. This revealing volume shows that these issues can be explained...

"Tony Colletti, a good suburban cop and father of a child with autism, finds himself drawn into the controversy over the apparent but rarely acknowledged connection between childhood vaccines and autism. His quest to uncover the truth forces him to risk all he holds dear while confronting corrupt government officials, the powerful pharmaceutical industry, and disturbing elements of his own past. Even while holding down his job and dealing with family...