"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
Unjust Drug Scare: USA Today scares Glucophage users. Yes, Glucophage (a diabetes drug) should be avoided in patients with kidney disease and severe heart failure, but most doctors screen their diabetic patients for these conditions regularly. It's when patients fail to come in for their regular checkups that these things slip through the cracks. The truth is, Glucophage is a very good drug for diabetes. It would be a shame if articles like this one scare patients away from it. posted by Sydney on
5/15/2002 09:07:00 AM
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