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Colesterol: Implicaciones Sociosanitarias y Políticas del un Abordaje Insuficiente (Informe de The Stockholm Network)
Date: 13 September 2006
Following a large cardiovascular conference recently held in Spain, this article discusses the findings of the Stockholm Network's publication: 'Cholesterol: The Public Policy Implications of not Doing Enough',
in regard to Spain's growing cholesterol problem. Article in Spanish  The Brussels Journal
Politicians Should Care About Their Voters' Health
Date: 07 September 2006
Chresten Anderson, Director of the Copenhagen Institute, references Impatient for Change when arguing that patients are not happy with the European healthcare systems.
The Baltimore Sun
Pharmaceutical Fakery is Health Care Terrorism
Date: 15 August 2006
Around the world, millions of people are exposed to a real health threat every day - the danger of taking the wrong medication. This spreading problem has nothing to do with patients mixing up their pills. Rather, it's caused by the proliferation of counterfeit drug traffickers, who are profiting immensely from selling fake medicines.
Wall Street Journal Europe
Curing European Health Care
Date: 09 August 2006
Reform of health services in Europe is as controversial a topic as you can find, stoked by headlines like "American firm hired to do all National Health Service shopping" in one British newspaper. As the private sector is called on to play a new health-care role, though, should Europeans really be alarmed?
The Guardian
Big pharma's big sell to doctors
Date: 30 June 2006
Consumers International is right to point out that pharmaceutical marketing practices are highly opaque, but neglects to ask why. The pharmaceutical industry is barred from informing consumers about their products, so they have to target the middlemen: doctors. If it were allowed to advertise directly to consumers, there would be no need to shower doctors with gifts. Anne Jensen Researcher, Stockholm Network |
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