For example, one of pharma’s best-kept secrets is that the peer reviewers charged with ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the clinical trial reports published in medical journals do not even have access to complete data and must rely on manufacturer-influenced summaries. John Abramson-one of the foremost experts on the drug industry’s deceptive tactics-combines patient stories with what he learned during many years of serving as an expert in national drug litigation to reveal the tangled web of financial interests at the heart of the dysfunction in our health-care system. At the heart of the problem is Big Pharma, which funds most clinical trials and therefore controls the research agenda, withholds the real data from those trials as corporate secrets, and shapes most of the information relied upon by health care professionals. The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries-yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge-misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health.
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Gray’s somewhat Victorian style of writing was not to everyone’s taste. Over his fruitful career, he authored some 30 books and countless articles on strategy, arms control, nuclear policy, and geopolitics. He retired most recently from the University of Reading. He taught at the Universities of Hull, Lancaster, and York, in the UK and at the Universities of Toronto and British Columbia in Canada. Among other posts, he served from 1982 until 1987 in the Reagan administration’s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. He was my friend and mentor.Įducated at Oxford and the University of Manchester, Colin worked in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in both government and academia. He was the teacher of two generations of U.S. Gray, the most consequential Anglo-American strategist of our time, died after a decades-long struggle with cancer. 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Godwin’in Ay’daki Adam’ı basım yılından eserin türüne, içerdiği dil ve zaman unsurlarından kiliseye, dönemin Dünya merkezli sisteminden Kopernik’e kadar çok tartışma yaratan bir hikâye.Īy’daki Adam yazıldığı zaman, gökbilimsel gözlemlerin gelişmesiyle yüzyıllardır hüküm süren Dünya merkezli evren fikrinin sallantıya uğradığı ve evrende Dünya dışında bir ev bulunup bulunamayacağının, eğer bulunursa da içinde bulunulan çağın hâkim fikirlerinin bu keşfi ne şekilde karşılayacağının tartışıldığı bir zaman. Judson Brandeis, voted best urologist in the SF Bay Area for a decade, is a surgeon, researcher, physician educator, and a caring clinician. The 21st Century Man is the book all men will want after turning 40 to feel great, look good, and have better physical intimacy for the rest of their lives.Lead author, Dr. The book also provides chapters on emotional and mental health, as well as fresh insights on relationships. 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The troop consists of Scoutmaster Tim Riggs (a middle-aged man and the town physician), Max (a mild mannered boy and best friend of Ephraim), Ephraim (nicknamed Eef, a boy prone to violent outbursts), Newt (a quiet, "nerdy" boy who is quite intelligent), Kent (a bold and tenacious boy prone to forcing his leadership among others), and Shelley (a deeply disturbed psychopathic boy).ĭetermined to simulate a true-to-life remote island scenario, Tim makes sure to remove any form of communication to the mainland. The Troop follows the story of five teenage boys and their Scoutmaster as they spend a weekend away on Falstaff Island, a remote island a short distance away from the town where they all live. The novel follows a troop of Boy Scouts who must deal with not only the threats posed by killer tapeworms, but also the homicidal and sociopathic tendencies of one of their own. The following year, it won the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing. The novel was released in English in hardback, e-book, and audiobook on Februthrough Gallery Books. The Troop is a 2014 horror novel written by Canadian author Craig Davidson under the pen name Nick Cutter. |