Marcia Angell

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from…

— Marcia Angell

Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful…

— Marcia Angell

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you…

— Marcia Angell

Japan has very long hospital stays. Ah, it's almost a rest cure. People in Japan who are hospitalized might lie around the…

— Marcia Angell

Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must…

— Marcia Angell

Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending…

— Marcia Angell

We should be willing to spend the money in return for the innovation.

— Marcia Angell

Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be…

— Marcia Angell