Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective.… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Pharmaceutical companies have too much influence over the education of physicians in this country. They have too much control over the evaluation of their… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
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