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Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Policy Gain or Confidence Game?

Edited by Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder
Categories: Health & Medicine, Public & Social Policy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9781487529055, 304 pages, June 2021
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781487529062, 304 pages, June 2021
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Table of contents

1. Introduction
Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder

2. Transparency, Pharmaceuticals, and the Problem of Policy Change
Katherine Fierlbeck

3. Data Transparency and Pharmaceutical Regulation in Europe: Road to Damascus, or Room without a View?
Courtney Davis, Shai Mulinari, and Tom Jefferson

4. FDA and Health Canada: Similar Origins, yet Divergent Paths and Approaches to Transparency
Margaret McCarthy and Joe Ross

5. Clinical Trial Data Transparency in Canada: Mapping the Progress from Laggard to Leader
Marc-André Gagnon, Matthew Herder, Janice Graham, Katherine Fierlbeck, and Anna Danyliuk

6. How Clinical Study Information Transparency Can Fail to Serve Its Purpose, and How the Essential Medicines Concept Can Help
Nav Persaud

7. Speak No Secrets: (Non)transparency in Health Canada’s Communications about Pharmaceutical Regulation
Joel Lexchin

8. Economic Ghost-Management in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Marc-Andre Gagnon

9. Balancing the Privacy Rights of Research Participants with the Public Interest in Clinical Drug Trials Data in the Context of Rare Diseases
Kanksha Mahadevia Ghimire and Trudo Lemmens

10. The European Registration of the Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Pandemrix: A Case Study of the Consequences of Poor Clinical Data Transparency
Tom Jefferson

11. Sharing Data and Ideas for Good Health: How Researchers Can Sustain an Ethical and Transparent Health System
Rita Banzi

12. Conclusion
Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder

Description

There is plenty of controversy surrounding pharmaceuticals, but it cannot be denied that the pharmaceutical industry is both socially beneficial and profitable. Regulators are expected to ensure that the economic success of the industry does not come at the expense of public safety, yet they have also assumed a cooperative role by providing advice on regulation and by targeting unmet medical needs. Concerns over regulatory standards, conflicts of interest, and the manipulation of information on drug safety and effectiveness have led to public mistrust and a greater need for transparency between the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators.

Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry evaluates the progress made in holding the pharmaceutical industry responsible for creating transparency in the industry, from development to market. The contributors to this volume examine the various mechanisms introduced to make the regulatory process more informative and situate these efforts within the larger project of enhancing the safety of drugs, vaccines, and other products.