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  1. Anavex Appoints David Tousley as CFO
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (OTCBB: AVXL) has appointed David L. Tousley, CPA, MBA, as Chief Financial Officer of the company, pursuant to a contractor agreement. Mr. Tousley, who has over 25 years of senior-level experience in biotech ...
  2. Bad Pharma
    How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried.
  3. Bad Pharma, Bad Journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    ‘The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal’, from Ben Goldacre's new book, Bad Pharma presents a disturbing picture emerges of corporate drug abuse.
  4. A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
  5. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  6. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  7. Connexions Library: Health Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on health.
  8. Deception By Design
    Pharmaceutical Promotion in the Third World

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    The authors discuss the workings of the pharmaceutical industry by exposing the unethical marketing practices, double standards and weak marketing codes.
  9. Dr. Cameron Durrant named one of PharmaVOICE's 100 most inspiring people in the pharmaceutical industry for 2010
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) announced that Dr. Cameron Durrant, the company#s Executive Chairman, has been named by PharmaVOICE as one of the 100 most inspiring people in the pharmaceutical industry for 2010.
  10. Dr. Cameron Durrant, MD, MBA, Alzheimer's Disease and Pharmaceuticals/Biotech Expert
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  11. For Health or Profit? The Pharmaceutical Industry in the Third World and Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  12. HealthSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  13. A Healthy Business
    World Health and the Pharmaceutical Industry

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  14. How Big Pharma Infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix says Pharma and its operatives.
  15. Moral bankruptcy of capitalism': UK's top public doctor shames western society over Ebola
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Western countries should tackle drugs firms' "scandalous" reluctance to invest in research into the virus which has already killed over 700 people in West Africa, the UK's top public doctor said, adding, “They'd find a cure if Ebola came to London.”
  16. My Interview with Pisstex
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1986
    Currently the government is trying to whip up national hysteria over drug consumption. Part of this hysteria is the effort to implement mandatory drug testing for all American workers. The administration's war on drug consumption presumes that drug abuse can be stopped by police and military repression.
  17. Narcs Versus Big Pharma
    Behind the Meth Curtain

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Communities in the heartland of America are fighting an epidemic of methamphetamine labs.
    The driving force behind the scourge? Big Pharma.
  18. NDMAC, Advancing Canadian Self-care
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  19. New Internationalist
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
  20. The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
  21. Outrage Against Big Pharma! Activists Protest "Obscene" Conference
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    It was in their fancy tailored suits and with suspicious eyes that Big Pharma CEO's and investors got interrupted by protestors as they came and went from the (too-big-to-fail) JP Morgan-sponsored conference on "health care" (read: profit care) at the elite Westin St. Francis hotel on Union Square in San Francisco on Monday, the 11th of January 2016.
  22. Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  23. Pharma Funded "Patient" Groups Keep Drug Prices Astronomical
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
  24. Pharmageddon
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    David Healy's comprehensive argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine is an indictment of problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities.
  25. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1889
  26. Private Profits vs Public Policy
    The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    According to Joel Lexchin, "Given the central role that medicines play in keeping us healthy, it is essential that we understand the policy environment that governs drug development, from the initial basic research to the sale of the manufactured produces to the patients that use them."
  27. The Real Pushers
    A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Drug Industry

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    A comprehensive analysis of the pharmaceutical drug industry in Canada.
  28. The Report of the Commission of Inquiry on the Pharmaceutical Industry.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  29. Safety Last
    The Failure of the Consumer Health Protection System in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Regush investigates how new medical devices and drugs are tested. He argues that the health protection bureaucracy is doing shoddy work, caving in to pressure from pharmaceutical corporations instead of acting to safeguard the health of Canadians.
  30. Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
  31. Strictly Legal
    The Caronia Decision and a Culture of Mercantile Nihilism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Caronia decision reveals an injustice system whose function is to provide legal cover for the excesses of the corporate elite. Caronia is a wake-up moment, announcing that the institutions and the philosophy that sustains it are broken, maybe beyond repair, and must be replaced now, while we’re still standing, by new social forms imbued with sane and humane values.
  32. TPP: Big Pharma's Big Deal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    We still don't know all the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal tentatively agreed to on Oct. 5 by negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries, but already critics are slamming it for many reasons, including its generous concessions to the pharmaceutical industry.
  33. TPP is "Worst Trade Agreement" for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries, said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement following the signing of the TPP trade deal.
  34. The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Implications for Canadian Public Health
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
  35. What the Tamiflu Saga tells us about Drug Trials and Big Pharma
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take, says Ben Goldacre.
  36. Whose Health Care?
    Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005

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