Healthy lifestyles are the biggest threat to the growth and expansion of the drug industry.
A recent Forbes magazine cover article, "Pharma's New Enemy: Clean Living," thoroughly addressed this subject from the position of the consumer as well as the investor.
Consider the following perspective from the article: "Do you really need all those prescription and over the counter pills you are popping? Maybe not.
There's a backlash building against the cost, risk and side effects of medication, and it's bad news for the pharmaceutical industry.
" This message was driven home even more powerfully when the article noted: "The results of pill dependence are insidious and devastating: billions of dollars in ever higher drug costs; millions of people enduring sometimes highly toxic side effects; and close to two million cases each year of drug complications that result in 180,000 deaths of life threatening illnesses in the elderly.
" As the article notes, "Every few years the ultimate medical catastrophe: a miracle cure that turns out to be toxic.
" (Think Vioxx, Avandia, hormone replacement therapy, Paxil, and the like.
) Every drug is a toxin! It used to be that an apple a day would keep the doctor away.
The recommendation now is an aspirin a day will keep the doctor away.
It turns out than an aspirin a day for at least five years increases a woman's chance of developing breast cancer by 80 percent.
I'd take my chances with the apple.
And if you get breast cancer, chances are the drugs prescribed for that cause more harm than good.
Many women have been prescribed Tamoxifen.
Research shows that Tamoxifen increases the chance of incidence and death from uterine cancer.
Even Something as seemingly harmless as over the counter children's cough medicine can be deadly.
A cough rarely kills a child, but cough and cold medicine just might.
The CDC recently released a warning to parents after more than 1,500 infants and toddlers wound up in emergency rooms and three children died because of reactions or overdoses of pediatric cold medicines.
Behind the scenes, one doctor admitted "fluids and patience are the best treatment.
"
A recent Forbes magazine cover article, "Pharma's New Enemy: Clean Living," thoroughly addressed this subject from the position of the consumer as well as the investor.
Consider the following perspective from the article: "Do you really need all those prescription and over the counter pills you are popping? Maybe not.
There's a backlash building against the cost, risk and side effects of medication, and it's bad news for the pharmaceutical industry.
" This message was driven home even more powerfully when the article noted: "The results of pill dependence are insidious and devastating: billions of dollars in ever higher drug costs; millions of people enduring sometimes highly toxic side effects; and close to two million cases each year of drug complications that result in 180,000 deaths of life threatening illnesses in the elderly.
" As the article notes, "Every few years the ultimate medical catastrophe: a miracle cure that turns out to be toxic.
" (Think Vioxx, Avandia, hormone replacement therapy, Paxil, and the like.
) Every drug is a toxin! It used to be that an apple a day would keep the doctor away.
The recommendation now is an aspirin a day will keep the doctor away.
It turns out than an aspirin a day for at least five years increases a woman's chance of developing breast cancer by 80 percent.
I'd take my chances with the apple.
And if you get breast cancer, chances are the drugs prescribed for that cause more harm than good.
Many women have been prescribed Tamoxifen.
Research shows that Tamoxifen increases the chance of incidence and death from uterine cancer.
Even Something as seemingly harmless as over the counter children's cough medicine can be deadly.
A cough rarely kills a child, but cough and cold medicine just might.
The CDC recently released a warning to parents after more than 1,500 infants and toddlers wound up in emergency rooms and three children died because of reactions or overdoses of pediatric cold medicines.
Behind the scenes, one doctor admitted "fluids and patience are the best treatment.
"
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