Innovation: Pharmaceutical groups become victims of their own success

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… of Eli Lilly jokes is a collective crying session. After the burst of productivity in drug development that followed the second world war – from antibiotics to blood pressure treatments – costs have risen while innovation has lagged behind …
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James Davies's top 10 psychiatry critiques

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When I started working in the NHS I pretty much accepted the mainstream view – that psychiatric drugs work, that the categories of mental disorder have been established via solid scientific research, and that we are now on the cusp of understanding the …
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Memantine May Improve Cognition in Bipolar Disorder

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MIAMI — A drug that for years has been approved to treat moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease may have a role in improving the cognitive deficits associated with bipolar disorder. In a randomized, controlled, parallel-arm clinical trial of adjuvant …
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