MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Deadly Medicine
By artappraiser on Sat, 12/11/2010 - 9:13pm |By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Vanity Fair, January 2011 issue
Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. Government’s failure to rein in a lethal profit machine.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/deadly-medicine-201101
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