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Pharma Phacts

Pharma Phacts is a group Australian medical students who think that medical students needed to know more about the pharmaceutical industry and its interactions with the medical profession.
Website: www.healthyskepticism.org/pharmaphacts
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Pharma Phacts was set up in March 2009 by a group of medical students from 19 Australian universities. The official launch was at the Global Health Conference '09 in July. The aim of the campaign is to provide medical students with evidence and resources on the effects of pharmaceutical advertising on medical students and doctors.

 

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...to influence multinational corporations effectively, the efforts of governments will have to be complemented by others, notably the many voluntary organisations that have shown they can effectively represent society’s public-health interests…
A small group known as Healthy Skepticism; formerly the Medical Lobby for Appropriate Marketing) has consistently and insistently drawn the attention of producers to promotional malpractice, calling for (and often securing) correction. These organisations [Healthy Skepticism, Médecins Sans Frontières and Health Action International] are small, but they are capable; they bear malice towards no one, and they are inscrutably honest. If industry is indeed persuaded to face up to its social responsibilities in the coming years it may well be because of these associations and others like them.
- Dukes MN. Accountability of the pharmaceutical industry. Lancet. 2002 Nov 23; 360(9346)1682-4.