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By Marcia Angell. 305 pp. New York, Random House, 2004. $24.95. ISBN 0-375-50846-5.

In this book, her most recent, Marcia Angell explores pharmaceutical research, deplores the rapidly expanding involvement (and distortion of truth) of Big Pharma, and implores us all (physicians, patients, politicians) to do something about it. The dust-jacket blurb asserts that Angell, "during her two decades at [the Journal] had a front-row seat on the growing corruption of the pharmaceutical industry." Perhaps, but since leaving the Journal, she's gone behind the curtains of Big Pharma, Big University, and Big Faculty. Drawing on her own work and on her thoughtful analysis of research, company financial statements, and investigative reports into drug . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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