Ashes Ashes18 Loka 2018

Ep 46 – Pill of Sale

Episode 46 - "Pill of Sale"

Drug prices, shortages, and barriers to access are out of control, prompting hospitals to join forces to make their own, and spurring the emergence of inventors hoping to chart a future in which life-saving drugs can be made cheaply at home. To lock in high prices, drugmakers have learned to game the American patent system to extend their monopolies, and block generic alternatives for essential medicines. Additionally, pharmaceutical companies have for years withheld data from important clinical trials, skewed the data that is published, and put the health and safety of clinical trial participants at risk. In this episode, we will examine these trends, as well as the historical quirks of drug approval in the United States that have led us down this sick path.

Chapters

01:51 Drug prices out of control
08:08 Case story: Inhalers
10:38 The process of drug approval
14:41 American drug patent system and the games companies play
20:23 Behind the scenes: clinical trial results manipulation
22:06 Behind the scenes: clinical trial human guinea pigs
27:58 Behind the scenes: clinical trial oversight
31:21 Are drugmakers even making the medicines we need?
36:24 The evils of socialized medicine
38:10 Going forward: alternative systems

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