{"id":16313,"date":"2013-02-26T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/industrie-farmaceutiche-cosa-si-nasconde-dietro-il-mercato-dei-farmaci-prezzo-dei-farmaci\/"},"modified":"2013-02-26T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:30:00","slug":"industrie-farmaceutiche-cosa-si-nasconde-dietro-il-mercato-dei-farmaci-prezzo-dei-farmaci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/industrie-farmaceutiche-cosa-si-nasconde-dietro-il-mercato-dei-farmaci-prezzo-dei-farmaci\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmaceutical industries: what is behind the drug market \u2013 drug prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">Overwhelming ads, promises of side-effect reduction, and shelves full of products that cure the same ailment. L<b>&#039;pharmaceutical industry <\/b>\u2013 one of the most profitable and important businesses in the world \u2013 has become a giant on a par with the big energy lobbies.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">But<b> what is behind the world drug market<\/b>? What are the mechanisms that regulate it? And above all: are we really sure of what we take every time we swallow a pill or give an injection?<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">It is quite difficult to give an answer to these questions, which often each of us when faced with a more or less serious disorder has asked. We know that there are many control mechanisms and just as many <\/font><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/agencies\/regulatory_agencies_bodies\/policy_agencies\/ema\/index_it.htm\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #30a010; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none\"><font size=\"3\">authorities that regulate the placing on <b>drug market<\/b>. <\/font><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">But, despite being convinced that generalizations such as to question the rigor of the majority of manufacturing companies are not possible, we went to explore the lesser known - and more obscure - side of this large and powerful market.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">Many investigations, conducted by journalists and researchers, have revealed truly disturbing aspects. And one of the works that had a huge impact worldwide was the volume<b> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/oct\/17\/bad-pharma-ben-goldacre-review\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #30a010; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none\">Bad Pharma<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/font><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/oct\/17\/bad-pharma-ben-goldacre-review\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #30a010; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none\"><font size=\"3\"> by Ben Goldacre<\/font><\/span><\/a><font size=\"3\">.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">A text in which too many words are not used to describe the mechanisms which, in some cases, have led to <b>pharmaceutical companies to rig test results <\/b>\u201c<i>of their drugs, using paradoxically legal methods to make them seem far more effective and necessary than they actually are<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">But what are the most controversial aspects of this world? scandals and doctors bribed to prescribe useless drugs<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pubblicit&agrave; martellanti, promesse di riduzione degli effetti collaterali e scaffali pieni di prodotti che curano lo stesso disturbo. L&rsquo;industria farmaceutica &#8211; una delle attivit&agrave; pi&ugrave; redditizie e importanti al mondo &ndash; &egrave; diventata un colosso al pari delle grandi lobby energetiche. Ma cosa si nasconde dietro il mercato mondiale del farmaco? Quali sono i meccanismi &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}