That’s how you make drugs!

  Chinese Clinical Oncology 2016 I want my Olaparib and I want it now! ‘Because I have cancer above the midriff, I can go and whistle for that drug, but it would have been given to me if the cancer had been under the midriff’. It’s an emotional outburst from a...

Trials are not for the benefit of patients

Annals of Translational Medicine, 2016;4(1):22 Trials are not for the benefit of patients. They are set up to enable the pharmaceutical industry to register new drugs. And the only thing the industry needs is a drug that performs better than the one it is meant to...