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Drug regulation – How does it work?

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

That rate hovered steady in 2009 and 2010, and then rose to about 70% in 2011, 2012, and 2013. This has become a massive and resource intensive exercise and involves many other different ‘agencies’ that need to be brought to heel. This is a cholesterol lowering injectable drug, known as a PCSK9-Inhibitor. And nothing else!

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What is corruption – and why does it matter so much?

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

Where hosting the football World Cup became an exercise in bribery from which no-one, and nothing, was immune. Try publishing a paper suggesting that cholesterol lowering is a waste of time, when the market for cholesterol lowering drugs is worth hundreds of billions. Envelopes stuffed with cash were handed out in hotel rooms.