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"While many Americans are popping risky and expensive statin drugs for cholesterol control, the FDA is blocking the sale of red yeast rice - a safe, natural source of powerful lovastatin... Why? Because the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have convinced our medical establishment that costly drugs are the answer to all our health worries - despite their dubious track record and often-deadly side effects." William Campell Douglass, MD, email Feb 20, 04
"The review and approval process for new prescription drugs in the U.S. is a scam and an atrocity, resulting in many thousands of deaths and a genuinely unsafe environment for Americans. . .most new pharmaceuticals are developed to make drug companies and their shareholders more profit, not to offer new treatments and certainly not to offer cures. . .only 15% of drugs approved by the FDA between 1989 and 2000 were cited as offering significant clinical advantage over drugs already on the market. That is, a vast majority of R&D dollars are spent on developing drugs that simply compete with existing drugs already on the market, so drug company A can try to rip sales away from drug company B. What's more, most drug makers won't even consider developing drugs for rare diseases because there is little promise of profit, despite the fact that at least 1 in 9 people in the United States suffer from at least 1 of the 6,000 known rare diseases." Brian Vaszily, Editor of Dr Jospeph
Mercola's ehealthy News You Can Use
Big Pharma is engaged in the deliberate seduction of the medical profession, country by country, worldwide. It is spending a fortune on influencing, hiring and purchasing academic judgement to a point where, in a few years' time, if Big Pharma continues unchecked on its present happy path, unbought medical opinion will be hard to find. John Le Carre in The Constant Gardener
"It is not unusual for drugs to cause side effects that are even worse than the ailment they are supposed to treat.. " Joseph Mercola, MD
"I think most prescription drugs are needless, and most are downright detrimental to your health. That having been said, I know that most doctors deal out prescriptions like they're Hallowe'en candy, and that most patients do what their doctors tell them to - which means somehow getting those presecriptions filled without going bankrupt." William Campbell Douglass, MD
"Though drugs are sometimes appropriate and at times can save a person's life, most of the time they are unnecessary, harmful and expensive"
Joseph Mercola. MD
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