Nickname: In8Doc

Review: Responding to Blue and his pro Pharma comment. Dude! wake up and smell the coffee. The Pharm industry is toxic. Drugs are toxic. Its a simple case of flipping statistics. Heart disease may be down but liver disease is up. Prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death in the USA.

Date reviewed: Dec 19, 2005 6:33 PM

Nickname: mwl

Review: I just don't trust drug companies, period. They are in the business of making money, which means they have to make a patient out of me so I will use their products. Drug companies are not in the business of helping people, there is no money in cures. Besides, I have family members who have suffered because of drug reactions. They made decisions to take the drugs based on what info their doctors told them, not on the whole truth of the potential side effects.

Date reviewed: Dec 14, 2005 7:14 PM

Nickname: Accountability

Review: I am tired of hearing about this ongoing war. I think it is time people are accountable for their health. If people would exercise and understand portion control there would be a lot less people who need medicines. And for those who complain of the sales reps in the doctors offices, shame on you. I am sure you are the ones who walk out with a bag of samples.

Date reviewed: Dec 10, 2005 5:53 PM

Nickname: syl

Review: Every time I have an appointment with my family doctor, there is always some drug rep in the office. Always. The money Big Pharma spends on direct to consumer marketing and on the salaries of drug reps contrubutes to the high cost of drugs and is obscene. Let the doctors and health professionals practice medicine and keep the sales reps and marketers out of health care.

Date reviewed: Dec 9, 2005 7:34 PM

Nickname: Robert

Review: A big part of the image problem could be fixed if the pharm manufacturers would simply lower their prices and stop gouging their customers.

Date reviewed: Dec 9, 2005 5:37 PM

Nickname: blue

Review: The National Center for Health Statistics has a new report (Dec. 9) noting that US life expectancy has hit another all-time high -- 77.6 years and deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke continue to drop. Too bad everyone fails to see the connection to Big Pharma.

Date reviewed: Dec 9, 2005 1:26 PM

Nickname: Kickbacks

Review: Big Pharma, like Big Oil or Big Retail are going to do whatever they want to do. They are cartels controlling their respective markets. What??.... Now they want to be 'loved' by the people. Unbelievable!

Date reviewed: Dec 8, 2005 8:22 PM

Nickname: Toshi

Review: I hope the average Japanese citizen understands that every major Japanese company does most of their business in the U.S. because it is the largest source of profit. The Japanese (and the Canadians and Europeans) are able to get their drugs at more reasonable prices because they are subsidized by the profits gleaned in the U.S.

Date reviewed: Dec 8, 2005 6:25 PM

Nickname: VASU

Review: The article is an eye opener for the present situation. Though, there is definitely a bad image among the public about the pharma industry. Still, it can be revived by understanding everybody in the industry: research scientists, marketing executives, drug representatives, pharmacists, doctors. We are in a service industry, not motivated by the commercial element only. I wish industry should understand this and design educational programs to bring all people under one umbrella and introspect and learn what to communicate to the public: We are here to help you.

Date reviewed: Dec 8, 2005 3:48 PM

Nickname: Jim

Review: The cure for Big Pharma is twofold. First, in a highly publicized move, it will offer to begin decreasing the prices on its older pharmaceutical products nearing patent expiration eighteen months in advance of the date of their patent expiry. Second, it will negotiate that program with the Federal government to win assurances that all new drugs marketed in the future be protected from generic competition for 10-15 years from date of U.S. marketing. In this manner, Big Pharma will win back popular and investor support because it will remove threat of disastrous Paragraph IV litigation and competition from all its new chemical entity (NCEs) products.

Date reviewed: Dec 8, 2005 3:42 PM