Background: Financial payments from the drug industry to US physicians are common.
Payments may influence physicians' clinical decision making and drug prescribing. Purpose …

The unnecessary use of antibiotics and concomitant rapid growth of antibiotic resistance
(ABR) is a widely acknowledged threat to global health, development, and sustainability …

Importance Manufacturers, companies, and health care professionals and organizations use
an array of promotional activities to sell and increase market share of their products and …

Executive summary Rapid demographic, sociocultural, and economic transitions are driving
increases in the risk and prevalence of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases …

Executive summary Essential medicines satisfy the priority health-care needs of the
population. Essential medicines policies are crucial to promoting health and achieving …

Objective Ontologies are widely used in the biomedical domain. While many tools exist for
the edition, alignment or evaluation of ontologies, few solutions have been proposed for …

Importance The association between industry payments to physicians and prescribing rates
of the brand-name medications that are being promoted is controversial. In the United …

Objectives The objective of this review is to explore interactions between physicians and the
pharmaceutical industry including sales representatives and their impact on physicians' …

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART
DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the …

Medicines play an integral part of healthcare delivery. However, they are expensive
commodities and account for a significant proportion of overall health expenditure in most …