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14. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2011 10.1007/ s00228-011-1052-1 Anything new in EU pharmacovigilance? Silvio Garattini and Vittorio Bertele’.

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25. This graph is from Chapter 7 of an excellent (though long and serious) history of the FDA: Carpenter D. Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA. Princeton University Press; 2010.

26. Mitka M. FDA Takes Slow Road Toward Withdrawal of Drug Approved With Fast-Track Process. JAMA. 2011 Mar 9;305(10):982-4.

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31. There is a good, free summary of the issues around this area in this PDF from the WHO: Aidan Hollis. Me Too Drugs: is there a problem? http://www.who.int/intellectualproperty/ topics/ip/ Me-tooDrugs_Hollis1.pdf

32. NICE, ‘CG17 Dyspepsia: full guideline,’ Guidance/Clinical Guidelines, http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG17/Guidance/pdf/ English. But also, if the NICE guideline and its references aren’t enough for you (it’s from 2004) please do waste an hour of your time browsing other more recent trials. There’s nothing magical happening here for esomeprazole.

33. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/12/business/media/12drug.html

34. http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.show Article&art_aid=92473

35. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0412/opinions-healthcarenexium-hmo-prescriptions-heads-up.html

36. Here I should declare an interest: I sit on the funding panel to address this exact question, every quarter, for the NHS ‘Health Technology Assessment’ programme. This funding stream exists specifically to identify trials that need to be done, but which no company would fund, comparing one drug against another, and if you are aware of any important areas where we don’t know which of two important treatments is best, you should submit a request (or if you’re lazy, email it to me).

37. http://www.isdbweb.org/publications/view/pharmacovigilancedata (‘Broadening access to signal is a positive step, but access to VigiBase is also needed’, ISDB, February 15th 2012).