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Registration open for the Selling Sickness conference, Amsterdam Oct 7-8

Selling Sickness - Influence on influence
The international conference Selling Sickness will be held at the
Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam on October 7-8, 2010.

Registration NOW OPEN!!
The topics - confirmed speakers - the rates - how to register - call for posters - hotel booking
Read more at: http://www.gezondescepsis.nl/conference-2010.html

 

The host is Healthy Skepticism (Netherlands) assisted by the Dutch Institute for Rational Use of Medicine and Healthy Skepticism (International). The sponsors are the Dutch Ministry of Health and the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate. Collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) is in process.

The conference is designed for everyone with an interest in pharmaceutical information and promotion including: health professionals, policy makers, staff of government health and regulatory departments, inspectors, staff of pharmaceutical, advertising and public relations companies, staff of NGOs and journalists.

The conference will focus on describing problems with pharmaceutical promotion, understanding the causes, developing solutions and enabling collaboration. The two days will include many presentations as well as time for networking, panel discussions and poster sessions.

Vendere malattie – Influenzare l’influenza

La conferenza internazionale Vendere malattie si terrà al
Mövenpick Hotel di Amsterdam il 7-8 ottobre 2010
SONO APERTE le iscrizioni!
I contenuti – i relatori confermati – le quote – come registrarsi – call for poster - prenotazione alberghiera.
Tutte le informazioni sul sito web http://www.gezondescepsis.nl/conference-2010.html
L’evento è organizzato dalla sezione olandese di Healthy Skepticism (Gezonde Scepsis) in collaborazione con l’Istituto olandese per l’uso appropriato dei farmaci e Healthy Skepticism International. Gli sponsor sono il Ministero della Salute e l’Ispettorato della Salute olandesi. E’ in corso anche una collaborazione con l’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità  (OMS).
La conferenza è rivolta a tutti coloro che sono interessati ai temi dell’informazione e della promozione dei farmaci: professionisti della salute, decisori di politiche sanitarie, staff dei dipartimenti dei Ministeri della salute e delle agenzie regolatorie, ispettori, staff delle industrie farmaceutiche, delle agenzie pubblicitarie e di pubbliche relazioni, membri di organizzazioni non governative e giornalisti.
L’obiettivo della conferenza è descrivere i problemi collegati alla promozione dei farmaci, comprenderne le cause, sviluppare soluzioni e rendere possibili collaborazioni.
Le due giornate comprenderanno numerose presentazioni, ma vi sarà anche tempo per conoscersi ed intessere relazioni, per discussioni in gruppo e sessioni poster. 

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909