The Real Cost Of The Iraq War A Big Mistake That America Must Live With What will be the total cost of the Iraq War? It has been estimated that the Iraq War has already surpassed the Vietnam War in funding. How is it that one man, one president, could be responsible for such a catastrophic mistake, and walk away from [...]

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Manipulating Statistics For Profit Do sales representatives manipulate doctors simply to make drug sales? Are drug reps being trained to profile a doctor’s personality, to promote their brands? They do, and they’re being trained by true professionals — the drug companies themselves. For instance, if a sales rep learns that you, the doctor, are an analytical [...]

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Prescription Drug Reimportation And The Facts Prescription Drug Reimportation Prescription drug reimportation refers to  — buying drugs from a country outside of the United States. Although currently illegal, many families are buying drugs from Mexico and Canada, solely for economic reasons. Dr. Peter Rost speaks out in favor of drug reimportation, in an interview with Maria Bartiromo: What [...]

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American Healthcare System Is The Best In The World American Healthcare Is The Best The American healthcare is the best, at least that is what proponents want you to believe. This statement is true if you own stock in major pharmaceutical companies (big pharma). If you are an average American like most of us, there [...]

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Just Ask Your Doctor If you feel that drug commercials are infiltrating your television set these days, your intuition is more than justified. Over the past several years, big pharma (pharmaceutical manufacturers) has invested heavily on advertisements that seem to have a miracle pill for just about any ill. Why? Because advertising works. In fact, [...]

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A Ventriloquist With Many Voices “Terry Fator is one of the two top entertainers in the world”. This is a quote by the famous Simon Cowell, a judge on American Idol. Now a compliment like that from Simon, well that is something. After you listen to Terry on one of his many videos on YouTube, [...]

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PREgnant MARes’ UrINe A very popular medicine, called Premarin, is actually made from horse urine of pregnant mares. This has been one of the most prescribed drugs in the United States. It has been one of the best selling drugs in America. Premarin is supposedly a form of hormone replacement therapy, called conjugated estrogens . Premarin pills are used [...]

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Controversial Issues with The PDR The Physicians Desk Reference ( PDR ) is the book that doctors and pharmacists go to when they need information about prescription drugs. The book is published annually. Prescription writing is a crucial part of the relationship between a doctor and the patient. It is obvious that prescription information is very valuable to [...]

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Big Pharma Ranked By Revenue Top 30 Pharmaceutical Companies (from 2006) In Excess of —  $$ 3 Billion 1.  Pfizer – U.S. 2.  Johnson and Johnson – U.S. 3.  GlaxoSmithKline – U.K. 4.  Hoffman-LaRoche – Switzerland 5.  Sanofi-Aventis – France 6.  Novartis – Switzerland 7.  AstraZeneca – U.K./Sweden 8.  Abbott Laboratories – U.S. 9.  Merck And [...]

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Please Press 1 For English Theodore Roosevelt, our 26th president, wrote a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919:      “In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated to an exact equality with [...]

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