Thursday, October 27, 2005

Big Pharma - just the facts!

• More than 100,000 deaths per year in the US come from medicines that are taken as directed by a physician ( i.e. not through misuse or overdose).

• Almost half of Americans take at least one prescription medicine every day; 1 in 6 take three or more daily.

• Big Pharma pays for about 90 percent of the continuing-education classes US physicians take.

• Washington has six times as many Big Pharma lobbyists as it does US senators.

• Of the 1,035 new medicines approved by the FDA from 1989 to 2000, more than half were "me-too's" that offered no significant new benefits over existing medicines.

Source: "Generation Rx" by Greg Crister

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