A little look at the drugs you buy from your doc

Sir Richard Sykes is a board member of Rio Tinto which put out huge ass amounts of pollution causing cancer and respitory disease.

He is the chairman of a company (Glaxo) which sells almost 3.2 million pounds of drugs a year aimed at cancer and respitory market.

hmmmm

Donald McHenery sits on Glazo's board which brings in 462million pounds a year from sales of Avandia (type II diabetes treatment)..

oh and he's a director for CocaCola (pop is known to be a huge player in type II diabetes)

hmmmmm

Glaxo also has drugs for you :) for quitting smoking. Derek Bonham sat on Glaxo's board till retirement in '01. Oh and also served as a director for Imperial Tobacco

just a couple examples...

Think there might be a slight conflict of interest.. even if they mean well???

Its estimated that drug companies spend about $5 billion a year in US on sales reps and them trying to infuence docs and get them pushing thier newest and best drugs.

$5 billion!!!!! Think they do this cause it is not effective???? Man are they stupid huh?

I know a guy that does this for work and how they keep track of thier docs.. docs families, birthdays, favorite wines. Take them out to dinners. Offer free samples and get them working for the drug companies in one way or another.

They offer free vacations, cell phones, computers, straight out compensation for participating in prescribing thier products.

Poor docs are so busy and over worked this is pretty much thier only source (for many) on the new products on the market.

(if you think the FDA allowing them on means its safe start paying attention to all the ones they HAVE to pull after people die.. was it Vioxx that killed thousands?)