E-DRUG: Prescrire's Awards for 2016
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Dear E-druggers
On 26 January 2017 the non-profit French medical journal Prescrire announced its Drug, Packaging and Information Awards for 2016.
Two of the products featured in the New Products section of the French edition in 2016 earned a Prescrire Drug Award. However, none of the new products examined constituted a sufficient therapeutic advance to warrant a "Pilule d'Or" (Golden Pill) Award or even a place on Prescrire’s "Honours List".
The low standards to which regulators hold pharmaceutical companies with regard to drug packaging, an important aspect of the quality of healthcare, are disturbing, because they jeopardise patients' safety.
Prescrire’s 2016 Information Awards revealed that, as in previous years, few pharmaceutical companies embraced transparency by agreeing to share all the data they hold with healthcare professionals.
More details at
english.prescrire.org <http://english.prescrire.org>
Christophe Kopp for Prescrire staff
Website: <http://english.prescrire.org>
ckopp@prescrire.org