Re:“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannid...
by wazoox on Friday July 05, 2019 @05:09AM
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Until recently, Big Pharma CEOs were either medical doctors of pharmacists. Marketing and finance were important, but not a driving force. Nowadays all of Big Pharma is headed by bean counters, marketing drones and finance guys, and are only interested in EBITDA. This is the main problem in all industries were science and engineering once prevailed.
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Re:“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannid...
by shadowtree on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:40AM
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Really?
Novartis - former head of R&D.
Pfizer - PhD in Veterinary Medicine (he joined their AH division in 93)
Astra Zeneca - Veterinary too
Merck / MSD - Lawyer
Roche - Economics & Law
Gilead - Biology
abbvie - never went to college, 30 years at company
Amgen - Biology