"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
This is a real problem and it goes much deeper than hormone replacement therapy or new cancer treatments. Drug companies use their dubious findings and misleading statistics in television and print advertising to convince consumers their products are superior. The FDA needs to do a better job of policing this. posted by Sydney on
3/07/2002 08:41:00 AM
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