Archive for the 'Evil Drug Companies' Category

Limiting Crestor

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

In a previous post, DrRich wrote about the JUPITER trial, the controversial clinical trial (so controversial that even Stephen Colbert did a riff on it) which showed that the (extraordinarily expensive) statin drug Crestor significantly and substantially reduced the risk of heart attack, stroke and death in people who had normal cholesterol but high CRP […]

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Crestor, Guidelines, Rationing and Other CRP

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

The JUPITER trial, reported this week at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has created quite a stir in the mass media and in the blogosphere. DrRich would like to do his bit in flaming the controversy.
On its surface the study and its results are […]

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Taxpayer Support of the Evil Drug Companies

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Demonizing the drug companies is a necessary and indispensable strategy under a healthcare system that covertly rations healthcare. Quite simply, it is necessary because drug companies are in the business of developing expensive new products that doctors and sick people will demand for themselves.
If we can paint the pharmaceutical industry as being sufficiently evil and […]

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