Healthy Skepticism Library item: 20479

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Publication type: news

Fighting killer drugs
The West Australian 1984 Nov 2131

Full text:

Mild-mannered Dr Peter Mansfield does not look like an angry young man.
But he is angry at the dozens of international drug companies which he says are responsible for one million deaths in underdeveloped countries each year through inappropriate marketing of dangerous pharmacists.

He is so angry that a year ago, after he completed his final year of medical studies in Bangladesh, he founded the Medical Lobby for Appropriate Marketing.

Meeting
The 26-year-old Adelaide doctor was in Perth this week to talk to doctors and pharmacists and he will address a public meeting tonight at the Claremont Community Health Centre.

He said some drug companies were promoting drugs in development countries that were banned in Western countries.

The lobby group, which already has 160 members in five countries, is also fighting the promotion of useless and unnecessary drugs in developing countries.