Redeye

Women and the pharmaceutical industry

| September 24, 2009

Podcast




Artist: Barbara Mintzes
Title: Women and the pharmaceutical industry
Album: Redeye: Vancouver Cooperative Radio
Year: 2009
Genre: Interview
Length: 18:35
Format: 44.1kHz, 128Kbps

Show Notes:

Women have good reason to be wary of prescription drugs after decades of poorly-tested drugs from thalidomide 50 years ago to HRT now. A new book tackles women and drug policy in Canada. Barbara Mintzes is one of the contributors to The Push to Prescribe. She talks about what happens when pharmaceutical companies advertise directly to women.

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