About Quote by Thomas Pogge

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth.…

— Marcia Angell

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health…

— Marcia Angell

The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

— Jenny McCarthy

Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major…

— Pierre Bosquet

“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women in the…

— Naomi Wolf

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access…

— Paul Farmer

Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease,…

— James Morcan

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those…

— David Mixner

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

— Harold E. Varmus

Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from the examination…

— Thomas Pogge

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they…

— Mort Kondracke