MEPs urged to throw out patient information proposal
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Efforts by MEPs to tone down an EU proposal to give pharmaceutical companies a role in providing information to patients have failed to mollify critics among consumer groups, who are urging the European Parliament to throw out the proposal when it votes on it next Tuesday.
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