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In conflict: the problem isn't that there's conflict between safety and efficacy or between getting a useful medicine to market and protecting the public from a dangerous one. The problem is that the conflict isn't well structured. That needs to change.

Publication: Pharmaceutical Executive
Publication Date: 01-OCT-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In conflict: the problem isn't that there's conflict between safety and efficacy or between getting a useful medicine to market and protecting the public from a dangerous one. The problem is that the conflict isn't well structured. That needs to change.(From the Editor)

Article Excerpt
AS I LOOK THROUGH THIS ISSUE of Pharm Exec, I realize that there is an unintended theme running through it: Over and over our authors look at the kinds of structured conflicts that keep the industry functioning (and that threaten it when they get out of balance.

Our profile of the generic giant Teva (on page 48) is a good example. Here is a company that thrives by attacking the patents of innovator companies, creating products based on other people's R&D, and pricing in a...

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