Revue Prescrire, article en une, Medicines in Europe July 2002
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Medicines policy in danger
 
Drugs treated like consumer goods, and patients like simple consumers; this may well become the norm if the proposed changes to European medicines policy, supported by the European Commission's Enterprises Directorate, hand in hand with the industrial lobby, are adopted.
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Medicines in Europe: campaigning goes on!
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Reorienting European Medicines Policy
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To clarify matters, we publish a series of documents and analyses of European medicines policy, which applies in most Member States (to download, see opposite).

Contents
• A call to national and European policy-makers • A free hand • Pharmaceutical policy is now decided at the European level • Distribution of roles within the European Union • European pharmaceutical policy is turning its back on public health • CPMP member's standpoint • An industry-serving pharmaceutical policy • Dangers of the mutual recognition procedure • Towards a medicines policy that supports basic public health needs • Internet: Drugs agencies have a duty to inform; FDA: an example of transparency; FDA MedWatch; EMEA: fake transparency

The overriding aim of the Forum, of which Association Mieux Prescrire and la revue Prescrire are active members, is to inform all those concerned by European medicines policy.
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