<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.
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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
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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.</div>
<br><a href="https://www.moneylife.in/article/drug-abuse-campaign-against-unnecessary-medication/53847.html" target="_blank">https://www.moneylife.in/artic<wbr>le/drug-abuse-campaign-against<wbr>-unnecessary-medication/53847.<wbr>html</a><span class="m_2699601434623434684HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span><br></div></div></span><span class=""><div class="m_2699601434623434684gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Mohammad Zakaria Pezeshki, M.D.<br>Associate Professor<br>Department of Community and Family Medicine,<br>Tabriz Medical School, Golgasht Avenue, Tabriz, Iran,<br>Tel: ++ 98 413 336 46 73<br>Fax: ++ 98 413 336 46 68</b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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