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Considers S. 1552 and companion H.R. 6245, the Drug Industry Antitrust Act, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Sherman Antitrust Act to establish drug company licensing procedures, to require FDA to certify the effectiveness of all new drugs, to require advertisements sent to physicians to contain FDA warnings on the drug, and to limit drug company rights to exclusive production of patented drugs.
Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation.Pills, Power, and Policyoffers a lucid history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. It details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescription drugs. Untangling the complex relationships between drug companies, physicians, and academic researchers, the book provides essential historical context for understanding how corporate interests came to dominate American health care policy after World War II.
Committee Serial No. 32. Considers legislation to eliminate anticompetitive practices in the patenting, licensing, and marketing of drugs, and to require FDA standardization of drug names and stricter safety and efficacy standards for new drugs.

Hearings

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 1646


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