Good pills - bad pills
Good pills - bad pills
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description | Medicinal and health magazine for laypeople |
Area of Expertise | Pharmacy, pharmacology, medicine |
language | German |
publishing company | Westkreuz publishing house, Berlin / Bonn |
First edition | 2005 |
Frequency of publication | bi-monthly |
editor | Non-profit society for independent health information mbH, Berlin |
Web link | gutepillen-schlechtepillen.de |
ISSN (print) | 1861-6046 |
Gute Pillen - Bad Pillen (GPSP) is a pharmaceutically critical medicine and health magazine for lay people. The twenty-eight- page magazine appears bimonthly, free of advertising and, according to its own statements, is independent of the pharmaceutical industry and other interest groups. The publisher of the paper is the non-profit society for independent health information mbH in Berlin. The editors come from the specialist organs arznei-telegram , Der Arzneimittelbrief , Medicinal Ordinance in Practice and Pharma-Brief of the BUKO Pharma Campaign. The magazine positions itself as the opposite pole to the publications of the pharmaceutical industry and is based on the US model Worst Pills - Best Pills .
editorial staff
- Wolfgang Becker-Brüser (doctor and pharmacist)
- Reinhard Bornemann (internist, health scientist)
- Elke Brüser (medical and science journalist)
- Dietrich von Herrath (internist and nephrologist)
- Iris Hinneburg (medical journalist)
- Bernd Mühlbauer (Institute for Clinical Pharmacology at the Bremen-Mitte Clinic, member of the Drugs Commission of the German Medical Association - AkdÄ)
- Heike Plank (editor)
- Jörg Schaaber (senior editor; BUKO Pharma Campaign)
Web links
- Good Pills Website - Bad Pills
- Anne Brüning: "Pharmaceutical advertising is often nonsense" . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 19, 2005; Interview with the editor Wolfgang Becker-Brüser