Too much guerilla marketing perhaps? You do have to almost admit it is the most "in your face" industry today, TV, computer, magazines, it's there. I could stand for a little less advertising and perhaps more charity donations for those who can't afford the medications instead. BD
The influence that the pharmaceutical companies, the for-profits, are having on every aspect of medicine ... is so blatant now you'd have to be deaf, blind and dumb not to see it," said Journal of the American Medical Association editor Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, a longtime industry critic. "We have just allowed them to take over, and it's our fault, the whole medical community.
Still, no one is suggesting anything as drastic as cutting off industry funding for academic research on new drugs. Those billions help pay lab and other expenses at virtually all U.S. teaching hospitals, medical schools and affiliated practices, while giving the drugs' developers the cachet of having big-name academic researchers running their studies.
Medical schools, journals fight industry influence - Yahoo! News
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