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Overdose by Jay S Cohen, page 162
The medication marketplace is a very competitive world. There is even a problem of surgery being advertised on the Internet.
Graedons Best Medicine by Joe Graedon & Dr Terasa Graedon, page 111
Among the wealthy nations that support the global pharmaceutical industry, the United States is by far the most permissive in its regulatory scheme.D. If you've ever wondered how the drug industry could pull off the greatest con of our time -- and turn the human body into a profit-generating machine -- you're about to learn the shocking answers in this interview.
Death By Medicine by Gary Null PhD, page 13
In 2000, pharmaceutical companies spent $2. In another Kaiser study, co-sponsored by The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, nearly half of American consumers said they trust advertisements to provide them with accurate information.
The Big Fix by Katharine Greider, page 172
The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that with thousands of drugs on the market, 60 percent of DTC spending in 2000 went to plug just twenty products.
The Big Fix by Katharine Greider, page 91
This translates to a likelihood that prescriptions are being given for drugs that are more dangerous and less effective than patients—or even doctors—realize. As a result, the ads were vague and unfocused, primarily brand-awareness campaigns designed to smooth the way at the doctor's office.
5 billion figure for consumer ads is concentrated on a relatively small handful of medications. Suddenly it became a normal part of our everyday experience to be confronted with the idea that we or a loved one might be suffering from ED (erectile dysfunction, for those not in the know), arthritis pain, high cholesterol, nasal congestion, osteoporosis, heartburn, or even the heartbreak of toenail fungus. The requirements brought to a halt the aggressive marketing of notorious drugs like amphetamine antidepressants and barbiturates. For the study, Wilkes' group asked medical experts to review 109 advertisements from the country's ten leading medical journals., page 28
Government intervention is also warranted on industry-initiated and industry-sponsored "front organizations.
The American Medical Association spent several million dollars in the early '90s to discredit the Canadian system and create doubts in the mind of the American public about a government-managed system for universal coverage. "There is kind of a self-selection process where physicians who are against alternative medicine end up being on the editorial boards of the journals," Dr.
Aids A Second Opinion by Gary Null PhD with James Feast, page 265
Fishbein was the most powerful man in American medicine in his day.
The tirade smoldered against a lurid four-color painting of a frock-coated Dickensian figure. GRAHAM: Since November, when I appeared before the Senate Finance Committee and announced to the world that the FDA was incapable of protecting America from unsafe drugs or from another Vioxx, very little has changed on the surface and substantively nothing has changed. This is an inherent conflict of interest.
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In the 1990s, direct-to-consumer advertising like this increased at a compounded-annually rate of 30 percent, according to Ian Morrison's book, Health Care in the New Millennium. Marcia Angell and Arnold Relman, another former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, to warn, "Few Americans appreciate the full scope and consequences of the pharmaceutical industry's hold on our health care system.
Aids A Second Opinion by Gary Null PhD with James Feast, page 265
Fishbein was the most powerful man in American medicine in his day. But in the mid-1990s, the FDA liberalized the requirements pharmaceutical companies have to meet.
The next time you watch television or read a magazine, pay special attention to pharmaceutical advertisements. In 1991 the drug companies spent a paltry $55 million on advertising drugs directly to consumers. "There is kind of a self-selection process where physicians who are against alternative medicine end up being on the editorial boards of the journals," Dr. Some invite pharmaceutical representatives into their offices and conferences, and some attend industry-sponsored conferences.
Aids A Second Opinion by Gary Null PhD with James Feast, page 200
Back in the World War II era, it was the same for tobacco.
Finally, a voiceover obligingly lists the side effects, often speaking as quickly and inaudibly as possible. Sales of those fifty intensively promoted drugs were responsible for almost half the increase in Americans' overall drug spending that year. Soon, such ads constituted the medical journals' major source of funding, and while they continue to deny it, publishers are influenced by the pharmaceutical industry in choosing which articles to print. Graham, it's truly a pleasure to have the opportunity to interview you.
Yet, according to a study conducted at the University of California and published in The Wall Street Journal, 60% of the pharmaceutical ads from medical journals violated FDA guidelines.