BigPharma and unethical marketing of medicinal products
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This case reminds me of other useless products I have come across such as Encephabol (pyritinol) from the German company, Merck3. When I worked in Botswana in the late 1980’s I received requests from doctors for this – for use in malnourished children as it ‘supposedly improves glucose uptake in the brain’. Surprisingly, that product still exists even in Germany with the indication ‘organic brain disorder’, in other countries also with other indications such as mental function disorder, but officially, not malnutrition.
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