Chan-On International Inc.
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Among the 12 patents CAON recently acquired is a design for turning
industrial plastic and ash waste into wallboard to replace drywall. it
is not only a reduction in cost for developers, it is environmentally
safe and longer lasting than regular drywall. This company has the edge.
Get on CAON first thing Wednesday.
Also, powerful members of the American government, from the President on
down, are all lobbied heavily by the cash rich drug companies. Instead,
everyone says we have this increasing problem They blame it on the
stresses of modern life or something like that, and they don't want to
look at the fact that we're creating mental illness.
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On The Take by Jerome P Kassirer M. In return, the APA bends over
backward to help drug companies promote their products. Although the FDA
requires advertisers to present a "fair balance," Cheryl Graham, Acting
Director of the FDA's Marketing Division, admits that one-half of the
journal ads violate this standard. Not to get into anymore detail.
That's because nutritional supplements, based on vitamins, minerals,
herbs, and natural substances such as MSM, are not patentable. Drug
companies know that putting sophisticated detailing teams in the field
to promote their products to doctors makes a difference in prescribing
behavior. As a result, niacin does not enjoy the intensive advertising
that the HMG CoA reductase inhibitors and gemfibrozil enjoy. Whoever
wrote that commercial should write Hallmark movies.
I think I need Zoloft.
Therefore, advertisers may influence the information you find on the
site.
RW: Ritalin is methylphenidate. Wilkes' group speculated "that the FDA
is unable or unwilling to enforce adequately its rules relating to drug
advertising. That's how pharmaceutical commercials really work.
It's only a small step from that to the adoption of an 'offense is the
best defense' policy as marketing pressures intensify. Or how about
giving people with problems more of an understanding in society. LET
PEOPLE KNOW THE TRUTH! Now, methylphenidate was used in research studies
to deliberately stir psychosis in schizophrenics. The
pharmaceutical-advertising machine seduces doctors, too.
Advertisements in prominent medical journals are intentionally
misleading, exaggerating a drug's benefits while downplaying its hazards
in small print in the addendum.
Is There Poison In Your Food? Unfortunately, this is also true of many
nutrition journals as well. Not to get into anymore detail. Not to get
into anymore detail.
Such funding can sway the balance of opinion from professional caution
to uncritical acceptance of a new therapy or drug. Click here for free
e-mail alerts. Take, for example, a Paxil commercial that was recently
popular.
Drug reps fill doctors' cabinets with "free" samples, knowing that if
patients do well on them, they won't want to switch.
The public is mostly unaware of these interlocking interests. Spending
on prescription drugs is now the fastest growing portion of healthcare
spending in the United States.
Along with this increase in demand, there has been a shift towards the
use of more expensive medications.
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Want stories like this e-mailed to you? That's called medical education.
We now spend more on antidepressants in this country than the Gross
National Product of mid-sized countries like Jordan.
, President of the British Homeopathic Medical Association. Although
federal agencies have control over drug advertising, these ventures
apparently have escaped detection and oversight.
They're told they are going to be on these drugs for life.
Salesmen and drug company "literature" are where doctors first learn
about things like "serotonin imbalances" and serotonin "selectivity.
The next time you watch television or read a magazine, pay special
attention to pharmaceutical advertisements. Now your doctor can provide
a treatment to help control nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
In addition, since niacin is a widely available "generic" agent, no
pharmaceutical company stands to generate the huge profits that the
other lipid-lowering agents have enjoyed.
Or how about giving people with problems more of an understanding in
society. They fund medical research, support medical schools and
hospitals, and advertise in medical journals. That should give you an
idea of how valuable you are as a drug consumer and of the staggering
profits the drug companies rake in every year. Simmons, MD, had himself
been a homoeopathic practitioner in Lincoln, Nebraska, "and one of a
rather partisan hue. The doctors themselves are also a part of the
problem. Pfizer alone has forty-five hundred people in its sales force.
Now, methylphenidate was used in research studies to deliberately stir
psychosis in schizophrenics.
in the papers anywhere people actually listen and learn.
The requirements brought to a halt the aggressive marketing of notorious
drugs like amphetamine antidepressants and barbiturates.
In spite of this tremendous risk, pharmaceutical advertisements are
becoming increasingly common and, unfortunately, increasingly effective.
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