10 things you may not know about Big Pharma
The poison jabs were last chance saloon
I’ve been at this for over 12 years now
You may not know this, but in 2011, Wiley published my book Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics.
That established me as the world’s leading authority on developing, manufacturing and distributing medicinal products. That was inside the industry. Outside pharma, people don’t have a clue about what I know. For that reason, I am so glad you as a subscriber are following my work here.
Taming the Big Pharma Monster
In May 2019, I self-published a book titled Taming the Big Pharma Monster by Speaking Truth to Power.
To promote it, I published 10 things you may not know about Big Pharma by Hedley Rees, author of Taming the Big Pharma Monster. This is it:
“Straight answers are not easy to get out of Big Pharma. Smoke and mirrors abound, as patients try to get the lowdown on the medicines they take. Hope is not lost, however. Here are 10 things you may not have known, which might make you want to see some searching questions get proper answers, not fob-offs.
Patents are awarded for products that could never have existed. Pharmaceutical companies do not have to prove they could get to market, and only one out of 10,000 molecules (compounds) get through. Something wrong there, don’t you think?
Patents create multi-billion monopolies if a medicine is approved for sale. It works akin to roulette; gambling on thousands of molecules in the hope of the one big win; commonly known as a blockbuster.
Four out of five