PHM-Exch> Experts talk in European Parliament: Call for urgent Europe-wide campaign to reduce the amounts of medications people are taking.

[Mohammad Zakaria Pezeshki]

The panellists called for an urgent Europe-wide campaign to reduce the
amounts of drugs people are taking. They discussed the need for an inquiry
into biased information being issued by Big Pharma on medicines that is
harming millions of patients. Between 2009 and 2014, GlaxoSmithKline was
charged $13 billion in fines for criminal behaviour which included hiding
data on the side-effects of the drugs and manipulating results.

According to Dr Malhotra, poor quality research, influenced by vested
interests, has resulted in an epidemic of misinformed doctors and
misinformed patients leading to poor clinical outcome. Dr Malhotra further
blames an ‘epidemic of misinformation’ over dietary advice which he
believes has driven the consumption of refined carbohydrates and added
sugars.

Sir Richard Thompson has argued against the use of statins, the
cholesterol-lowering drug, which are only effective in people who already
have heart disease; yet, millions of people who are not at risk take them.
According to a 2014 study of Imperial College, beta-blockers have resulted
in 800,000 excess patient deaths in Europe over the past eight years.

https://www.moneylife.in/article/drug-abuse-campaign-against
-unnecessary-medication/53847.html






*Mohammad Zakaria Pezeshki, M.D.Associate ProfessorDepartment of Community
and Family Medicine,Tabriz Medical School, Golgasht Avenue, Tabriz,
Iran,Tel:  ++ 98 413  336 46 73Fax: ++ 98 413 336 46 68*
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