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• Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to…
• It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment…
• Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must…
• A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were…
• The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly…
• Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful…
• Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
• Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending…
• The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever…
• The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from…
• Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and…
• Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

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