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The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

Author Marcia Angell

Format Paperback

Publisher Random House Trade Paperbacks

Category Health

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In this explosive expose of the drug companies and how they are ripping us off, Marcia Angell, M.D., a doctor, medical journalist, and a former editor of the respected New England Journal of Medicine, reveals the many ways in which the pharmaceutical industry has moved away from its original purpose of finding and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine that produces drugs of questionable benefit, the industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt such institutions as the U.S. Congress, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), academic medical centers, as well as the medical profession. In spite of a lack of innovative drugs and continuously growing prices, the drug companies invest most of their time and money in marketing, legal maneuvers to extend patient rights, and government lobbying to prevent price regulation.

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Marcia Angell

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  • Release Date: 2005-08-09
  • Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780375760945

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