Ben Adams is a business, science and healthcare journalist who has worked as an editor for the UK publication Pharmafocus, as a group editor for Pharmaceutical Marketing Europe, as well as a features and news writer for the BMJ and the Pharmaceutical Journal. He has an especial interest in market access, drug pricing and the ethics of the life sciences industry and has been heavily involved in ensuring that the need for greater clinical study transparency remains on the agenda for the industry. On the personal side, he enjoys reading esoteric pieces of literary fiction from Charles Williams, Will Self, Ros Barber and Milan Kundera, and is currently awaiting the publication of his own set of literary juvenilia, coming to a second-hand bookshop no-where near anyone soon.