It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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… - Marcia Angell
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…
- Marcia Angell
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… - Marcia Angell
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…
The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it want… - Marcia Angell
The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it want…
In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on th… - Marcia Angell
In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on th…
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind… - Marcia Angell
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind…
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the… - 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 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… - Marcia Angell
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…
A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the … - Marcia Angell
A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the …
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… - Marcia Angell
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…
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