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In the Spotlight Hooray for Blockbuster Drugs Their first era has revolutionized health care, and their second promises even more.
Paul Howard, City Journal, 8-1-08 The press is full of stories criticizing the pharmaceutical industry for marketing "blockbuster" drugs that are big on sales but low on innovation. "Pharmaceutical executives, like movie moguls, have focused on creating blockbusters," wrote Melody Petersen in a Los Angeles Times op-ed last January. "They introduce products that they hope will appeal to the masses, and then they promote them like mad. . . . The strategy had a flaw that executives have long ignored: It required extraordinary amounts of promotion at the expense of scientific creativity." Similarly, Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, told PBS's Frontline: "The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth."
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News
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· Now for the Slaughter, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal, 3-18-10
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· Releasing Medicare Claims Data To Support Quality Improvement Initiatives: Legal Barriers And Opportunities, J.H. Thorpe, E. Pereira, and S. Rosenbaum, George Washington University/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 3-18-10
· What House Passage of the Senate Health Bill Means for America, Kathryn Nix and Robert Moffit, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation, 3-16-10
· IWV Poll of 35 Key Swing Districts, Independent Women's Voice, 03-16-10
· Physician Office vs Retail Clinic: Patient Preferences in Care Seeking for Minor Illnesses, Annals of Family Medicine, 3-10-10
· Congress Declares War on HSAs, National Center for Policy Analysis, 3-5-10
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