Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-308) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Chapter 1 Race to the Bottom 1 -- Chapter 2 How Drug-Company Policies Harm People 20 -- Chapter 3 How Drug-Company Policies Cause Problems for 50 to 75 Percent of Patients Taking Prozac 36 -- Chapter 4 When New Drugs Are Approved, the Experiment is Just Beginning, and You May Be Part of It: Viagra 50 -- Chapter 5 How Drug-Company Policies Harm Women 66 -- Chapter 6 Why 50 to 75 Percent of People Quit Taking Their Cholesterol-Lowering Medications 89 -- Chapter 7 Why 50 to 75 Percent of People Quit Taking Their Medications for High Blood Pressure 108 -- Chapter 8 Why Seniors Are at the Greatest Risk 117 -- Chapter 9 How the Drug Companies Slant Drug Research, Limit Information to Doctors and Consumers, and Secure High Profits 129 -- Chapter 10 What the Drug Companies Must Do to Reverse the Side-Effect Epidemic--But Will They? 166 -- Chapter 11 What's Wrong with the FDA? And What Can Be Done About It? 176 -- Chapter 12 What the FDA Shouldn't Do: Why We Need an Independent Medication Safety Monitoring System 198 -- Chapter 13 Doctors, Drugs, and Patients 212 -- Chapter 14 How to Avoid Side Effects and Use Medications Safely 228.
