Adverse Reactions

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DRM:
ACS4

Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781775585022

Recounting the fenoterol epidemic?a major medical controversy that took place more than 15 years ago?this narrative explores the involvement of the asthma drug that caused numerous asthma deaths. Although the epidemic occurred in New Zealand, its shocking discoveries and subsequent consequences attracted worldwide attention in medical journals and conferences. Neil Pearce, the researcher who discovered that fenoteral was the cause of the epidemic, tells this personal story while raising concerns about drug safety internationally and analyzing the battle between money and science in medical research.