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...White House, top aides predicted that the President would not take any action until Silverman issued his report, which is expected within a week or two. "He has no support on the inside," one aide said about Donovan. "But nobody wants to pull the trigger." The White House has troubles of its own. Plans are under way on Capitol Hill to investigate whether the FBI and the White House tried to mislead the Senate about Donovan's fitness for office...
These are among the scores of instances of mishandling cited by a major new study of drug promotion, sales, uses and abuses in Third World countries. The report was conducted over a period of eight years by Pharmacologist Milton Silverman of the University of California at San Francisco; his wife, U.C.S.F. Research Associate Mia Lydecker; and former HEW Assistant Secretary Dr. Philip Lee. Melodramatically titled Prescriptions for Death, the 172-page report diagnoses "an acute deficiency of social responsibility" on the part of the international pharmaceutical industry...
According to Silverman et al., the multinational drug companies practice a "blatant double standard" in selling products to poorer nations. Side-effect warnings that are disclosed in drug reference books in industrialized nations are sometimes left out of guides used in underdeveloped lands. Products that are outlawed or severely restricted in the Western world-clioquinol and aminopyrine, a fever and pain remedy linked to a serious blood ailment-are dumped in the unregulated markets of Southeast Asia. Many of these products are elaborately promoted. Clioquinol was touted on Indonesian television until the government banned all TV commercials last year. Other...
...author of three earlier books condemning drugmakers, Silverman is a persistent gadfly, but an influential one. Among his targets are the biggest drug producers in the world. Switzerland's Ciba-Geigy, fourth in sales in the indus try, is accused in the report of dumping 30th clioquinol and aminopyrine. The West German giant Hoechst and E.R. Squibb and Sons, Inc., of Princeton, N.J., are charged with selling tetracycline in Southeast Asia without sufficient warnings that the antibiotic can discolor children's teeth. California-based Syntex Corp. is taken to task for failing to publish standard warnings on birth...
Doctors in underdeveloped nations, Silverman says, are singularly dependent upon the data they receive from drug companies, through both salesmen and the data supplied to drug guide publishers. Medical journals are often unavailable or unaffordable, and physicians have little time for reading, since they may be seeing 30 patients an hour...