Why do Pharmaceutical companies donate tens of millions of dollars to the AHA ev!


Question:

Why do Pharmaceutical companies donate tens of millions of dollars to the AHA every year.?

Is It to;

A: Ensure AHA policy always involves promotion of their products and pushing theories that support the use of their products?

B: Ensure that AHA policy promotes dietry advice that ensure an ongoing need for their products?

C: To ensure that AHA policy promotes diet and lifestyle choices that make their products unnecesesary, thus causing a big decline in profits and dividends to shareholders?

Additional Details

3 days ago
Harmony, I was wondering if you were going to come rushing to the defence of your brothers in arms. Your answer appears to be a long winded way of saying A.

Pharmaceutical companies fund research and expect favourable results. You have basically admitted this.
A study published in 2004 confirms this. 100% of pharmaceutical company funded stuties were of apositive result to their products. That means every drug developed has worked as stated, with no side effects. Thats not the world that i live in.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob...
This sort of inflence is not restricted to USA either
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/...

3 days ago
What I would prefer, Harmony, is for goverments to do what they are elected to do, and that is look after the people. Maybe they could redirect a small portion of the money spent on illegal wars to fund studies that are truly independant.
The reults then would be more reliable, and most probably with less emphasis on drugs and more on diet and lifestyle.
But then again, as you well know, the sickness industry is a big spinner for the economy.


Answers:

Much as I hate to break into this beat up the drug companies question and answer session I would like to put in my 2 cents worth.

Pharmaceutical companies devote 22% of their profits to medical research and fund ~80% of all medical research. The remaining 20% of funding comes from the government and universities.

Naturally they expect a return on their money if they manage to develop the next great cure for Alzhemiers/Heart Disease/Diabetes/etc. But what industry could devote that much money without an expected benefit?

If you want them to stop funding reasearch where is the money going to come from? Do you want to increase taxes to pay for it? Or are you satisfied with where health care is now?




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