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1. Royal College of Physicians, London UK. INNOVATING FOR HEALTH. Patients, physicians, the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS. February 2009. Report of a Working Party.
2. If you’re very confused about the European Medicines Agency, and the UK MHRA, and how they relate to each other, it’s fairly simple. The MHRA used to approve drugs, now the EMA do, but they farm out some of the local work to the old national regulators, especially monitoring and communication, as well as some of the approval stuff.
3. I recommend the work of John Abraham, collected here: (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/6
4. Owen BM, Braeutigam R. The Regulation Game: Strategic Use of the Administrative Process. Ballinger Pub Co; 1978. Via Abraham J. On the prohibition of conflicts of interest in pharmaceutical regulation: Precautionary limits and permissive challenges. A commentary on Sismondo (66:9, 2008, 1909-14) and O’Donovan and Lexchin. Social Science & Medicine. 2010 Mar;70(5):648-51.
5. http://www.alter-eu.org/sites/default/files/documents/lonngrendoc.pdf
6. http://www.alter-eu.org/sites/default/files/documents/lonngrendoc.pdf
7. http://www.alter-eu.org/fr/press-releases/2011/02/25/conflictof-interest-case-involving-ex-ema-director
8. http://www.corporateeurope.org/publications/block-revolvingdoor
9. Lurie, P., Almeida, C., Stine, N., Stine, A. R., & Wolfe, S. M. (2006). Financial conflict of interest disclosure and voting patterns at food and drug administration drug advisory committee meetings. JAMA, 295, 1921e1928.
10. If you’re interested in starting on this, the following are a good place to start: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/health/ policy/25knee.html?_r=1; http://www.nytimes.com/ 2005/02/25/ politics/25fda.html. And the work of the Project On Government Oversight is excellent, led by the researcher who worked on Senator Grassley’s reports into the pharmaceutical industry: http://www.pogo.org/ investigations/public-health/fda.html; http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/08/fdas-janetwoodcock-thesubstance-behind-her-nonsubstantivesubstantive — ties-to-industry.html
11. Light D, editor. The Risks of Prescription Drugs (A Columbia/ SSRC Book. Columbia University Press; 2010).
12. Survey of FDA Scientists Shows They Feel Pressure to Exclude…: Oncology Times [Internet]. [cited 2012 May 6]. Available from: http://journals.lww.com/oncology-times/Fulltext/2006/08250/Survey_of_FDA_Scientists_Shows_T hey_ Feel_Pressure.8.aspx