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		<title>The PSA debacle</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2011/10/16/the-psa-debacle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So now it’s official.  The PSA screening test leads to a cascade of more tests and drastic treatments that cause serious harm AND saves no lives.  But there were plenty of warning signs 20 years ago, when the PSA test began to be promoted aggressively to men and their physicians.  The demand for PSA screening was created by the companies that make the test, the equipment to diagnose prostate cancer, and the drugs to treat it.  These companies also fueled consumer advocacy---but only the groups of cancer survivors who encouraged other men to undergo PSA testing.  Now a panel of independent experts has announced its recommendation against PSA screening for healthy men at any age.  In the meantime, a multibillion-dollar industry has grown up around PSA screening that’s not likely to disappear any time soon.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=8809&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anemia drugs hasten death in some cancer patients</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/13/anti-anemia-drugs-increase-chances-of-death-for-some-cancer-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For seven years Johnson &#38; Johnson ran fraudulent ads on prime time TV and in magazines with this recurring theme:  A cancer patient cannot continue working because of debilitating fatigue due to chemotherapy. The ads told people in similar circumstances to ask their doctors about Procrit, which always quickly put an end to the fatigue. There is no published evidence to support the cure-for-fatigue claim, according to a 2007 press briefing at the FDA.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2753&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Marketing of Osteoporosis</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/05/19/the-marketing-of-osteoporosis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How a risk factor (bone loss) became a disease (osteoporosis) by Maryann Napoli. Originally published in American Journal of Nursing, May 2009 Nurses probably get the same question I often get as a consumer advocate.  Should I be on this drug? You’re asked because you’re seen as the expert or simply a knowledgeable friend.  In fact, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2210&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Daily Meds: A book review</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/08/29/our-daily-meds-a-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we knew that the pharmaceutical industry has been creating new diseases for at least four decades (recall how menopause became a hormone-deficiency disease curable by taking estrogen for the rest of your life).  But the author of Our Daily Meds,  a new book by journalist Melody Petersen, shows that one drug company, Pharmacia, was not shy about acknowledging it publicly.  
Overactive bladder was created by Pharmacia in the mid-1990s in order to sell its new drug Detrol. (See TV ads with this obnoxious voice-over: “Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now.”)  Petersen, then a business reporter for The New York Times, describes how she covered the 2003 Pharmaceutical Marketing Global Summit in Philadelphia, where Neil Wolfe, Pharmacia’s vice president, outlined the steps taken to make Detrol into the $3 billion a-year-product it is today. The first slide of his presentation: “Positioning Detrol (Creating a Disease).”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2261&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women-in-Towels Evista Ad Critiqued</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/07/01/women-in-towels-evista-ad-critiqued/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/07/01/women-in-towels-evista-ad-critiqued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The women in Eli Lilly’s new ad campaign are attractive, healthy-looking and wearing nothing but towels. “Cut two risks with Evista. The only agent indicated to treat osteoporosis and reduce the risk for invasive breast cancer.” That two-for-one claim for Evista makes it different from other drugs taken by symptom-free people.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1165&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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