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Publication type: news

Suspended Roche handed an olive branch
The Manufacturer 2009 Feb 16
http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk/content/8925/Suspended_Roche_handed_an_olive_branch?PHPSESSID=9af1710017f450a414541860


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Pharmaceutical firm Roche Pharma has had its membership to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) reinstated after serving a seven month suspension for breaching its code of convention.

Roche’s conduct was adjudged to “bring discredit on, or reduce confidence in, the pharmaceutical industry”. The activities found wanting were related to the selling of a drug called Xenical to private clinics which was deemed to be “possibly prejudicial to patient safety”. The drug was for treating obesity and was supposed to be prescription-only.

Roche was also accused of providing £55,000 of funding to a company for setting up another clinic which was also linked to the sale of the drug.

 

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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