"You should be embarrassed if you prescribe Nexium because it increases costs with no medical benefits.. The fact is Nexium is Prilosec .it is the same drug. It is a mirror compound." -Thomas Sully, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Director, addressing the American Medical Association.
"Nexium is a game that is being played on the people who pay for drugs." -CMS Director Thomas Sully
"When optimal doses are used, Prilosec and generic omeprazole appear to be as effective as Nexium or any other PPI." - Managed Healthcare Executive April 1, 2004"Nexium offers no innovation; the drug owes its existence entirely to AstraZeneca's need to retain the company's considerable share of the $8.3 billion PPI market." - HealthFacts
"Nexium.is virtually identical and.a generic is available for a price about 10 times less." - Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2004
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Monday, April 25, 2011
What do others say about AstraZeneca's Nexium?
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