Pharmaceuticals: The capitalism issue

by Michael Davis

Capitalism and pharmaceuticals are not things that should have any connection. Yet, we have reached a point where a significant percentage of the commercials on television and print ads are for pharmaceuticals. These pharm...read more

by Tyler Mills

The drug manufacturer Pfizer got some more bad news yesterday after a reported was released by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices outlining that their pill to help people quit smoking Chantix has been linked to di...read more

by J.A. Laraque

Seeing isn't believing Or knowing for that matter. I have come across people who try their best not to buy anything over the internet. They tell me it is because they just don't know what they are getting. Even though they...read more

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by Warren Longwell

The pharmaceutical industry, handgun manufacturers, and tobacco companies. Question: What do these three institutions have in common? Answer: Public opinion of all three is equally low, according to several market research...read more

by Pedro Miranda

Modern industrialized societies enjoy the longest life expectancies ever. Some of this is due to hygienic measures, potable water being one of them, vaccines being another. The capitalist pharmacologic establishment is ...read more

by Carol Harquail

First of all I say Thank you for allowing expression of this topic. One of serious importance in the scheme of things. To reference a place called Hunza, in northern Pakistan, mountains region, is a place, where no can...read more

by Jim Plagakis

I have been a pharmacist for 40 years. I clearly remember the days when big companies like Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis and Abbott were out to create and market drugs that cure, treat, ameliorate or otherwise manage illnesses ...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

Everybody have the right to be cured from diseases and have access to all drugs and medical therapies gratis or at low, affordable costs; the problem is that the high costs of many medical drugs, imposed by the pharma-comp...read more

by Stephen Carter

In Thailand the government's decision in early 2007 to dictate the pricing and licensing terms for a specific pharmaceutical product was the kind of bureaucratic policy direction taken where socialism governs economic acti...read more

by Olga Jelic

We all heard the saying that "History repeats itself"; so let's go back to the early 1900's when everyone was sick from polio. If the vaccine for polio was never created half of today's population would not exist. The ev...read more

by Harvey Kunz

THE DARK SIDE OF CAPITALISM OUR TOXIC WORLD: Thanks to our industrialized society, our immune systems are now overwhelmed with over two million chemicals that didn't even...read more