Big pharmaceuticals like the FDA precisely because it protects a large market for them, and its approval process ensures that any cure crafted outside a government-infused pharmaceutical establishment will have to be sold to a well-connected drug company if it is to ever be used for its real purpose: the saving of lives.
Governance of the pharmaceutical sector is related to eight functions (Kohler and Baghdadi-Sabeti 2011): registration, selection, procurement, distribution, licensing of pharmaceutical establishment, inspection, control of promotion and control of clinical trials.
The irony is that the baby boomers' curiosity, combined with their mistrust of the pharmaceutical-medical establishment and the torrent of data, has made the current menopause generation more responsive to promotions for products that are, for the most part, untested and unregulated.
The major difference between physician-prescribed "good" drugs like antidepressants and tranquilizers and "bad" drugs like marijuana and cocaine, it implies, has to do with the sanctification of some by the medical, pharmaceutical and legal establishments and the outlawing of others, which, given their effects, seems somewhat arbitrary.
Although some people in the pharmaceutical and medical establishments have described the book to me as being 'a bit over the top', it is, in my opinion, a carefully constructed and convincing argument that the way we regulate, market and prescribe drugs is badly broken.
The quality by design concept in pharmaceutical formulation development requires establishment of a science-based rationale and a design space.
This is an empirical and historical study of the dynamics of technological innovation (TI) in the pharmaceutical industry from its establishment at the beginning of the 19th century to 1990.
And for decades, we have been told (by the medical establishment, by pharmaceutical companies, and, sadly, by the press) that our knowledge of genetics will soon help us solve nearly every malady, whether it affects humans, other animals, or plants.
When he could not get the medicine he needed – because it was not officially approved – he railed against the US Food and Drug Administration, the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies.
Some experientially gained know-how might be involved, but it could generally be obtained by a wide variety of experiences in laboratories, medical establishments, or pharmaceutical companies.
The research is conducted inside universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, farms, defense establishments, and commercial facilities that provide animal-testing services to industry.
