Like it or not, most of you are in the age group who are the highest consumers of prescription drugs. But does what you know about the pharmaceutical industry just come from the media? If yes, this course will inform you about: * How drugs are developed, approved, priced and marketed * Value for money, NICE, and the NHS drugs budget * The Cancer Drug Fund * Antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines * Data transparency * Multinationals, generics and a virtual company * Whether bigger is better, or not * Factual information sources By the end, you will have a better chance of working out whether the media have told you the whole story…or not. Once weekly dosing, but 100% efficacy and 0% side effects not guaranteed. And, as a bonus, some fun with tabloid health websites.