The Truth About the Drug Companies: How they deceive us and what to do about it
2004; BMJ; Volume: 329; Issue: 7470 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.329.7470.862
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
ResumoD r Marcia Angell, a member of Harvard Medical School's Department of Social Medicine, has written a painstakingly researched book on the wiles and ways of what has come to be called “big pharma.” It is a clear expose of the American drug industry and is written in the impassioned but impeccable prose we expect from a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. ![][1] Marcia Angell Random House, $24.95, pp 336 ISBN 0 375 50846 5 Also available as an ebook, $17.95 http://www.randomhouse.com/ Rating: ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] ![Graphic][4] ![Graphic][5] Angell says that $200bn (£110bn; €165bn) is spent annually on prescription drugs in the United States. With the cost rising 12% a year, it is the fastest growing part of America's swollen health bill. In 2002 the average price of the 50 commonest drugs used by elderly people was nearly $1500 for a year's supply. At, say, six prescriptions—not an uncommon number among elderly Americans—that's $9000 a year for one person's drugs. What are the remedies for this unaffordable financial … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [4]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif [5]: /embed/inline-graphic-4.gif
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