Healthy Skepticism Library item: 6748

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Publication type: Journal Article

Baraldi R.
Drug company money: to accept or not to accept? Is that the question
DES Action Canada Newsletter 1997; (51):1-2, 4-6
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Abstract:

A panel discussion dealth with the question of whether women’s health groups should accept funding by pharmaceutical companies. Presentations were made from a variety of perspectives: groups that had and hadn’t decided to accept funding, a doctor who has written on the pharmaceutical industry and a former employee of Health Action International who has looked critically at issues concerning drug companies.

Keywords:
*analysis/Canada/corporate funding/ patient groups/ consumer groups/ conflict of interest/ attitude toward industry/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: CONSUMERS/PATIENTS/SPONSORSHIP: PATIENT AND CONSUMER ORGANIZATIONS