Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessa….

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

Pharmaceutical companies have too much influence over the education of physicians in this country. They have too much control over the evaluation of ….

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind….

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their lif….

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 the….

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them..

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

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

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

It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alte….

You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'sympt….

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights..

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing..

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the ….

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...incre….

In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on th….

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

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 healt….

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

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it want….