Monday, April 07, 2008

Are drugs about health or profit?

Did you know that a "study by York University researchers estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development."? Although pharmaceutical companies' claims that patients pay high prices for medications to cover research and development costs, the industry spent $33.5 billion on promotion costs in 2004.

These and other pharmaceutical factoids here.

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