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Publication type: Journal Article

Lexchin J, Williams R, Marion J.
Rebuttal: are drugs too expensive in Canada?
Can Fam Physician 2006 Jul; 52:841-2,:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16893142


Abstract:

When used properly, drugs can deliver value for money, but only about 10% of the drugs brought to market offer any substantial therapeutic value over existing medications. For example, for treating uncomplicated hypertension, older diuretics at pennies a day have proven just as good as, if not superior to, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and calcium channel blockers that cost more than $1 a day.1…

Keywords:
Publication Types: Comment MeSH Terms: Canada Cost-Benefit Analysis Drug Costs* Humans


Notes:

Comment on:
Can Fam Physician. 2006 May;52:573-6, 578-81.

 

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What these howls of outrage and hurt amount to is that the medical profession is distressed to find its high opinion of itself not shared by writers of [prescription] drug advertising. It would be a great step forward if doctors stopped bemoaning this attack on their professional maturity and began recognizing how thoroughly justified it is.
- Pierre R. Garai (advertising executive) 1963