Sunday, December 14, 2008

More Crookedness From Drug Makers

According to an article in the NYT, Wyeth paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to Prempro, a hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women--despite the fact that the drug was found to raise the risk of breast cancer.

It is truly sad that we, the ordinary citizens in this country, really have no way of knowing whether or not the drugs prescribed to us by our doctors are safe or if they even work--the profit motive seems to trump every other concern within the drug research field.

I think Congress should enact stricter controls on the ways drug companies can market pharmaceuticals--to both doctors and the public at large.

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