The Lessons of Vioxx — Drug Safety and Sales
I know we all have our ideas that the drug companies do an awful lot of pushing when it comes to drug sales. But sometimes reviews like this come out that really paint the true grim picture of just how bad it is. Illegal and many questionable tactics are common. If this was any other industry their would be arrests and congressional hearings. The sad part is that we are not dealing with Ford trying to lie about the highway MPG to the dealerships–this is about patients’ life, health and prosperity. And the numbers reflect that this activity is killing more Americans than anything else on the planet.