.. and for once it’s not us saying it, it’s Glaxo
In an extraordinary admission, a senior executive with UK drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has ‘confessed’ that the vast majority of prescription drugs don’t work.
Dr Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GSK, has told a conference that over 90 per cent of all drugs work for only between 30 per cent and 50 per cent of patients.
At the very bottom of the efficacy table are the cancer drugs, which work on only 25 per cent of patients. These are closely followed by Alzheimer’s drugs that work on just 30 per cent of people. Drugs for rheumatoid arthritis, migraine, incontinence, hepatitis C, and diabetes work on only half the patients, at best. The most effective drugs are the analgesics, which work for to 80 per cent of those who take them.