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Index
Side-effects 80,100-101,102-116
Sierra Leone 29, 69
Singapore 122
Smith, Kline & French 49, 51
SMON (sub-acute myelo-optic neuropathy)
100-101
Social Audit (UK) 100,176-177
Painkillers 35, 86,106-110
South Korea 29
Pakistan 150, 154
Spasmo-Cibalgin (Ciba-Geigy) 108
Papua New Guinea 53,147,150,155
Squibb 40,59, 61, 66,112-113
Pasuma Strong (E. Merck) 72
Sri Lanka 7, 32,126,146,147,148,149,
Penritin (Beecham) 47,58, 86
150,151-152,158,159-160,185-187
Pfizer 53, 61,112,185-187
Sterling (UK) 152
Pharmaceutical Society of Gt. Britain 171
Sumycin (Squibb) 112-113
Pharmacists 21, 23, 92, 97,197
Sweden 101,170,171,180
Pharmamed (Malta) 173
Philippines 32, 47,49, 83,93,109,119,124 Switzerland 28,48,52, 64,108-109,167,
169,170,171
Placebos 31-32, 42
Syptbion (Merck) 73
Plant-based drug industry 121-123
Polytamin Tonic (Hoechst) 40
Tagamet (Smith Kline & French) 51
Tanzania 5, 6, 9,11,13, 20-21,23, 66,85,
Poly vision (Mead Johnson) 87
86,118,122
Prescribing Freedom 56
Terramycin (Pfizer) 86
Prices 46-49, 59-62, 83-85,136-138,
Thailand 74-75
148-149,164-165, 182, 195
Primary Health Care 5,11-15,17-18, 20-23, Therapeutics (a licensee of American
Cyanamid) 62
24, 92,124-128, 129-133, 147-148,
Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB)
171,194-195
187-188
Production 22-31, 3445, 55, 59-60, 61,
Transfer pricing 60-62, 157-158
133-138,153-155,158,164,199
Trinidad 47
Public Drug Distribution 18, 23-25,
139-141,155
UK:
Committee on Safety of Medicines
Quality control 55, 59, 167-168, 195,198
(CSM) 40, 167
Medicines Act 170
Raw Materials 44, 60-62
United Nations Centre for Transnational
"Real cost" of drugs 47-48
Corporations (UNCTC) 29, 64,148,
Redoxon (Roche) 100
157,158,159
Registration 156-157
United Nations Conference on Trade and
Rehidrat (Searle) 68-69
Development (UNCTAD) 35,47, 49,56,
Research and Development 49-54
59,90,110,112,121,146,156,161,
Retar - B12 (Glaxo) 34
162,163
Rhea-Pilusa 49
United Nations International Children's
Rhone-Poulenc52
Emergency Fund (UNICEF) 15,132,
Rimactane (Ciba-Geigy) 173
162,164
Rivomycin-Strepto (Rivopharm) 113
United Nations Industrial Development
Rivopharm 113
Organization (UNIDO) 5, 123,146,
Robins A.H. 85
162,163,164
Robitussin (A.H.Robins) 85
United States 28, 29, 47,53,54, 58, 72,
Roche 44-45,46,47,49,52,53,56, 60,
99,101,121,122,130,159,163,
75,86,87,183
166-167,169,170-171,175,184-185,
Royal Drugs Ltd. (Nepal) 139
186
Rwanda 165
Upjohn 113
Upper Volta 1, 48, 85, H I , 114,117,174
St. Kitts 47
Sales Inducements 69, 83-85
Valium (Roche) 47, 49, 60, 75
Salesmen 63, 65-66, 71,101
Sales Promotion 66, 69, 84,90, 93-110,195 Venezuela 7
Verdivitone Elixir (Squibb) 40
Samples 63, 85-86
Vietnam 122,124,147,155
Sandoz 44,108,183
Vitamins 3, 24, 31-34, 35, 3745, 62, 80-83,
Searle 68-69, 98, 99-100,122
86,138,191
Seclomycin (Glaxo) 184
Septrin (Wellcome) 61, 71
Wellcome 13, 37,53, 60, 71,184
Servipharm 182
Offic of Health Economics (UK) 51,54,
55,62,182,185
Orabolin (Organon) 87,103-106
Organon 103-106
Overprescribing 86-89, 93

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