Hey, this new drug--it's to die for..

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the impact that the marketing departments of large pharmaceutical companies are having on the publication of information from clinical trials and the way in which the pharmaceutical companies control the raw data from trials. It is argued that the pharmaceutical firms are becoming an increasingly undemocratic force, controlling negative information and leaving medical journals to publish findings of research that contradict the raw data.

Pharmaceutical preparations, Pharmaceutical industry, Influence

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Extreme makeover--a whole new you?

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the dilemmas faced by the development of ontological enhancements, or medical advances applied to the enhancement of human traits or capacities. As an example, the questions that would be raised by the possibility of taking a pill that would give one the sexual desires of the opposite sex are examined.

Ethics, Ethical aspects, Ontology

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Nurse turns on US as research is 'besieged'

Article Abstract:

Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel laureate, has launched a withering attack on the state of biomedical research in the US in a paper written for the journal Cell. Sir Paul became president of Rockefeller University in 2003 but has now revealed his disillusionment with the US system.

United States, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Public opinion, Nurse, Paul M.

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