May 15th, 2018 | RESEARCH
This paper deals with the journalistic coverage of biologically active compounds presented as promising drugs in Brazil. The sample consists of 214 journalistic stories on 40 compounds published in two daily newspapers and a monthly science magazine from January 1990 to December 2016. After 27 years, although journalists and scientists had claimed that all compounds would become drugs in a few years, only two completed the evaluation tests and were approved for commercialisation. The paper provides a series of strategies to build a more analytical view on drug research and development.
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Carlos Henrique Fioravanti, Author, Oxford UniversityCĂ©sar Maschio Fioravanti, Author, University of SĂŁo Paulo
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Identifier Type: DOI
Identifier: 10.22323/2.17020202
Identifier Type: ISSN
Identifier: 1824-2049
Publication: Journal of Science Communication
Volume: 17
Number: 2
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Audience: General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals | Scientists
Discipline: Health and medicine
Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article | Research Products
Environment Type: Comics | Books | Newspapers | Media and Technology