Drugs, doctors, China’s health & dodgy Practices

Ethical Corporation:: "Big Pharma, with flattened sales in developed markets, is pushing some pretty dodgy promotional activities in countries like China I recently spoke at a meeting in London on the future of China’s healthcare system. One issue I raised is the thorny question of Big Pharma’s marketing practises in China and the developing world, where generally underpaid doctors are offered inducements by Big Pharma to prescribe certain drugs over others, and how this can be to the patient’s and/or health services detriment. "