Are Pharmisutical companys bad?!
Question: Are they promoting study in only certain areas of medicine that are profitable to them. Are they causing many people to take many unneeded medications for problems that sometimes could be solved with more natural remedies. If so who is working to solve this problem? What changes will need to come about in order to stop this abuse of power?
Answers: Are they promoting study in only certain areas of medicine that are profitable to them. Are they causing many people to take many unneeded medications for problems that sometimes could be solved with more natural remedies. If so who is working to solve this problem? What changes will need to come about in order to stop this abuse of power?
There's almost nothing which is unmitigated evil, just as there's almost nothing which is pure good. Pharmaceutical companies are no exception.
They are good to the extent that they provide something which is really needed, and is really effective. But they do make unconscionable profits. And they do promote prescription remedies where an herbal would often be more appropriate. They also promote prescription drugs that have side-effects more serious than the condition they are supposed to treat.
The solution is training doctors to know when an herbal or an over-the-counter medication should be recommended first. Then, if that doesn't work, look to prescription drugs.
There is also the fact that drug companies tend to do most research on the most common illnesses, because they will sell more that way. The solution there is non-profit foundations to fund research in universities for the less profitable drugs, then license a drug company to manufacture it. They will make it if they do not have to carry the expense of research.
As to the outrageous prices for prescription drugs, the solution is to buy generics whenever you can.
Whether any of these could be fixed by legislative action I will leave until after we see who wins in November. If Obama wins, I will have hope.
I think these kind of situation will never stop. The fact that there are various kind of natural remedies can solve a lot of problems including cancer. But, who would fund for the research, who would get the government to pattern right the formulations. Thats is what the portion of set back you will get. Most of the large corporations like Aventis, Pfizer, Bayer & so on enjoy large profits as they had to recover their cost of research and clinical trials over the years, Not only they have to recover cost as soon as possible, but also they had to rip high profits as soon as possible before the pattern rights expired.
Over years, there are a lot of corruption practices in new drugs trials over west africa regions. Involuntarily human gunny pigs occur because of poverty & lack of education. Therefore, lets face it ! welcome to reality. Thats what the sin we are in. Any drugs you take now has been clinically tested & trials over the years. Any adjustment of effectiveness is been studied. But they haven't told you that who suffers, during trials.
Just like diamond, it took a very inhumane way of getting labour to mining it and end up in our jewelry stores where our society pays thousands of dollars for it, where the labour are only getting portions of food ration for his or her family DAILY ! Thats why, people say "There are blood in every diamond you wear".
Same as "There are death & suffering in every drugs you take".
Sadly, we can't do anything to stop these. Sorry , lets face this.
Yes the Pharmaceutical giants are bad ? They have no mind for the natural course of the body's inate ability to heal itself, they have no concern for the plethora of insidious side affects that their drugs and toxic sludge have ~ neither on our bodies or the environment, they are not concerned with treating the whole patient ~ body, mind and soul......... they are pushing a vast array of chemicals on us at an alarming rate ? All in the name of greed, money and power .......... The FDA don't give 2 hoots about natural courses of healing as they would stand to lose an awful lot of wealth if they did ? If the price we pay for moving too fast into the "future" is high at the individual level, it is even more serious when viewed across the whole human race.
In the history of our planet, thousands of species have become extinct because of changes not nearly so profound as those which the human race has had to contend with ~ especially so in modern times.
One of the world's great anthropologists, Richard Leakey, warned ~
"People feel we are here by predestination and that because we are humans, we will be able to survive even if we make mistakes. In fact, there have been thousands of living organisms of which a very high percentage have become extinct, and there is nothing to suggest that we are not part of that same pattern"
I think that we are on a fast slide if we don't halt the manufacture and production of all these man made medicines and chemicals ............... i'm saving every penny to buy my own little island in the middle of the South Pacific somewhere .......... haha, not really but seriously, what hope is there?? The hope is that we just keep waving our banners and speaking out loud and speaking out proud about all the bs and inconsistencies we are fed ? One day soon enough people will realise that the way to health & vitality is to start taking more responsibility for their own health & doing the right things by their bodies to start with ?
Many many ailments and illnesses can be cured from a wholistic point of view ~ i mean crikey, people pop aspirin and panadol like lollies to eliminate headaches when they are most times simply dehydrated .......... the medicines contained therein usually only have a bandaid effect at any rate and do nothing to resolve the cause of the problem............. Greenpeace do a stirling job at looking after our environment but as far as the medicine side of it goes i don't know who cares ........... i do know that me and my buddies do though .................. :0)
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good health to you & yours?
They aren't intrinsically evil and conspiring against your health as alot of Alt Med conspiracy wingnuts would have you believe.
However, they do exert a lot of pressure on both doctors, and more importantly consumers. Advertising creates the perceived "need" for a drug.
Studies funded by a drug company tend to show more positive results than those done by independent investigators, or at least the negative studies just get put in a drawer.
We are an over medicated society, especially when it comes to things like meds for anxiety and sleep.
As a family/ER doctor I try to do my bit, I certainly don't prescribe alot of the newest heavily promoted (and expensive) drugs when an older cheaper one whose safety is long established will work just as well. I don't see pharmacy reps in my office, and I don't accept gifts or literature from them. Yes I do let them give me free samples of drugs which I give to my low income patients.
Remember that they are businesses first, and developing a new drug to market cost millions of dollars. Many promising drugs don't pan out once they get into real world testing, even if they look promising in the lab. They aren't in the business for humanitarian reasons, they have stock holders that want to see a profit as well.
Also, lets give appropriate credit to the pharmaceutical industry, for all its faults, tens of millions of lives have been saved or improved over the last 50 years through antibiotics, vaccines, drugs for heart disease, stroke prevention, cancer drugs.
We just had in the news last week that Vitoryn is a scam. The drug company (Merck I believe) suppressed the research that it does not do anything to reduce plaque formation in people's arteries. I think that's a $1 or $2 million dollar market last year.
Some interesting books on the subject: "Our Daily Meds" by Melody Petersen and "The Truth About the Drug Companies" by Marcia Angell.
here's a good video to watch. http://cleansingblog.com/2008/01/29/big-...