{"title":"Marcia Angell","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-verdade-sobre-os-laboratorios-farmaceuticos","title":"The truth about pharmaceutical companies","description":"The pharmaceutical industry has long been accused of straying from its original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful medicines and instead transforming itself into gigantic marketing machines. In THE TRUTH ABOUT PHARMACEUTICAL LABS, Dr. Marcia Angell—former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and currently a member of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School—demonstrates how the pharmaceutical industry, corrupted by easy profits and greed, deceives and exploits its consumers. And she advocates for an essential, long-overdue change. Concise and forceful, the book identifies the seven sins of the pharmaceutical industry, including one of the industry's most perverse practices: overpricing precisely those who need it most. In 2001, one in four seniors in the United States reported skipping doses or failing to purchase prescription medications because of money issues. While profits soar, pharmaceutical companies have the audacity to use their wealth and power to impose their interests on Congress, academic medical centers, and the FDA, the US agency responsible for regulating food and drugs. The author shows that the extortionate practices of pharmaceutical companies are based on an unfounded principle: research spending. Research and Development consumes a relatively small portion of the budgets of large companies in the sector, negligible compared to marketing and administrative expenses. \"The pharmaceutical industry is not particularly innovative. The vast majority of new drugs are not. They are merely variations of drugs already on the market, designed to capture a profitable and established consumer market,\" reveals the author. \"THE TRUTH ABOUT PHARMACEUTICAL LABORATORIES is a searing indictment of an industry that has escaped all control.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159939170556,"sku":"9788501074409","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/marcia-angell.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}