[CarolynS]

Deadly Medicine

Vanity Fair, January 2011
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f...edicine-201101

Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. Government’s failure to rein in a lethal profit machine.

Once upon a time, the drugs Americans took to treat chronic diseases, clear up infections, improve their state of mind, and enhance their sexual vitality were tested primarily either in the United States (the vast majority of cases) or in Europe. No longer.

[paula_w]

Digger this is another reason pwp feel so much anger toward those with high salaries and wasteful spending while we get sicker everyday.

it can't be both ways -they can't ask for positivity and respect from the patients when their own bottom line is money. However bottom lines have meaning and work both ways. We shouldn't worry about "feelings or sucking up" when we get no compassion or results. We need a bottom line.....like everytime we hold a wpc, is another 3 years science and business have failed us.

Our bottom line should be. It's all about people.