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Wonder Drug

Date released

5 Dec 1955

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

049

NoS ID

120122

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows processes involved in the manufacture of the new antibiotic terramycin at the Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Folkestone.

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Pharmaceuticals (1994 Video)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

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Tylenol affair - Inquiry (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview

Andrew Manderstam reports on an inquiry into the Tylenol affair, in which seven individuals died in Chicago after ingesting a cyanide-contaminated batch of the Johnson & Johnson painkiller. Includes...

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Legal cannabis crop harvest (1993)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report from the scene as the first legalised cannabis crop in the UK for fifty years is harvested by pharmaceutical company Hemcore Ltd in Great Dunmow, Essex. It is to be used as hemp. Speakers are Saffron...

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Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs (2006)

Director

Ronit Ridberg

Subject

Business studies; Health Education; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 45 minutes), $250

Exposes the insidious ways in which the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry uses, manipulates, and in some instances creates illness for capital gain. American media scholars and health...

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How to Survive a Plague (2014)

Director

David France

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £12.99

Filmmaker David France tracks the efforts made by activist groups ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) to convince the government and the pharmaceutical industry to speed up human trials of experimental...

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Medicines Without Frontiers (1995 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences; Politics & government

Distribution

Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

World-wide competition has forced Europe to relaunch its industrial policy for the pharmaceutical industry, especially in the research and development sector, which includes biotechnology. The European...

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Hayes at the weekend (1977)

Genre

Interview; Talk show

Hayes at the Weekend looks back at the week’s topical shows. Includes interviews with Jack Dunn, General Secretary of Kent NUM on miners rejecting a pay incentive scheme, productivity, hazardous work and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Fire in the Blood (2014)

Director

Dylan Gray

Subject

Medical sciences; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £6.98

FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south after 1996,...

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Good Practice in Safe, Efficient and Cost-Effective Drug Prescribing (3 Parts) (1997 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23, 22, 27 min., 1997 sale: £300.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Programmes on the safe administration of intravenous drugs, patient compliance, and evaluation of claims from the pharmaceutical industry. 1 (1993): Outlines the main indications for using the intravenous...

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